Stages of capital
law, culture, and market governance in late colonial India
Birla, Ritu
1965-
creator
text
bibliography
ii
Durham
New Delhi
Duke University Press
Orient BlackSwan
2009 [reprinted 2011]
2011
monographic
eng
xi, 346 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Ritu Birla.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-328) and index.
Rule of law
India
India
Politics and government
1857-1919
India
Politics and government
1919-1947
India
Economic policy
Great Britain
Colonies
Economic policy
HC435 .B57 2009
330.954035
9788125041467
9780822342687 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822342458 (cl : alk. paper)
2008041778
NcD/DLC
150726
20150726112957.0
29450