Company of Kinsmen: Enterprise and Community in South Asian History 1700-1940

ISBN-13: 9780199486809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 268 str.

Tirthankar Roy

Opis

This book chronicles how the concept of organizing people to serve economic ends emerged in early modern and colonial India. It examines rules of cooperation, why people decided to join forces, how disputes were settled, and how cooperative communities became increasingly unstable in more modern times. It focuses on five dimensions: actor, agent, time, purpose, and region.

Recenzje

'[A] real tour de force .. a creditable attempt to present a connected and conceptualized narrative of the great transition in the Indian economy from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.' Claude Markovits (Economic History Review)

O autorze

Tirthankar Roy is Professor of Economic History in the London School of Economics. He works on economic history, business history, history of development policy and the classical music of India.He is the author of The Economic History of India (3/e 2011)