Stages of capital : Law, culture, and market governance in late colonial India

By:

Birla Ritu

Contributor(s):

Publication details: Durham Duke University Press 2009Description: 346p ixISBN:

9780822342687

Subject(s):

1. Rule Of Law - India2. Politics & Government - 1857 - 1919 - 1919 - 19473. Economic Policy - U K - Colonies

DDC classification:

330.954000 BIR

Contents:

Table of contents Acknowledgments ix; Introduction 1; Part 1. A Non-Negotiable Sovereignty; 1. The Proper Swindle: Commercial and Financial Legislation of the 1880s 33; 2. Capitalism's Idolatry: The Law of Charitable Trusts, Mortmain, and the Firm as Family, c. 1870-1920 67; 3. For General Public Utility: Sovereignty, Philanthropy, and Market Governance, 1890-1920 103; Part 2. Negotiating Subjects; 4. Hedging Bets: Speculation, Gambling, and Market Ethics, 1890-1930 143; 5. Economic Agents, Cultural Subjects: Gender, the Joint Family, and the Making of Capitalist Subjects, 1900-1940 199; Conclusion: Colonial Modernity and the Social Worlds of Capital 232; Notes 239; References 307; Index 329

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
BOOKs	National Law School	330.954 BIR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	18.05.2024	30391

Table of contents
Acknowledgments ix;
Introduction 1;
Part 1. A Non-Negotiable Sovereignty;
1. The Proper Swindle: Commercial and Financial Legislation of the 1880s 33;
2. Capitalism's Idolatry: The Law of Charitable Trusts, Mortmain, and the Firm as Family, c. 1870-1920 67;
3. For General Public Utility: Sovereignty, Philanthropy, and Market Governance, 1890-1920 103;
Part 2. Negotiating Subjects;
4. Hedging Bets: Speculation, Gambling, and Market Ethics, 1890-1930 143;
5. Economic Agents, Cultural Subjects: Gender, the Joint Family, and the Making of Capitalist Subjects, 1900-1940 199;
Conclusion: Colonial Modernity and the Social Worlds of Capital 232;
Notes 239;
References 307;
Index 329

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