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Stages of capital : law, culture, and market governance in late colonial India
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Stages of capital : law, culture, and market governance in late colonial India / Ritu Birla.
ISBN
9780822342687 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
Physical Description
xi, 346 pages ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 13, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-328) and index.
Contents
The proper swindle : commercial and financial legislation of the 1880s
Capitalism's idolatry : the law of charitable trusts, mortmain, and the firm as family, c. 1870-1920
For general public utility : sovereignty, philanthropy, and market governance, 1890-1920
Hedging bets : speculation, gambling, and market ethics, 1890-1930
Economic agents, cultural subjects : gender, the joint family, and the making of capitalist subjects, 1900-1940
Conclusion : colonial modernity and the social worlds of capital.
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