Stages of capital : law, culture, and market governance in late colonial India - Birla, Ritu, 1965- (Durham ; New Delhi : Duke University Press ; Orient BlackSwan, 2009)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-328) and index.
Keywords: Rule of law -- India; India -- Politics and government -- 1857-1919.; India -- Politics and government -- 1919-1947.; India -- Economic policy; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Economic policy