Caste And Capitalism In Colonial India

Author : David West Rudner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Caste
ISBN : 8121506816

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Caste and Capitalism in Colonial India by David West Rudner Pdf

Illustrations: 22 B/w Illustrations & 4 Maps Description: Caste and Capitalism in Colonial India presents an anthropological and historical challenge to the traditional assumptions about kinship, caste, and commercial organizations in South Asia. Focusing on the Nattukotai Chettiars, a merchant-banking caste that played a central role in South Indian banking and trade in the period from 1870 to 1930, Rudner explores the nature of non-capitalist economic formations and the impact of colonial rule on indigenous commercial systems, as well as variety and change among India's caste and ethnic groups. Regardless of theoretical perspectives adopted by anthropologists and historians studying social organization in South Asia, certain assumptions have remained unchallenged: that all castes are organized either by marriage alliance or status hierarchy and that caste structures are incompatible with the rational conduct of business. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and archival research, Rudner argues against such monolithic characterizations. He demonstrates that in the case of the Nattukotai Chettiars, caste and commerce are inextricably linked through formal and informal alliance, institutions, and practices crucial to the formation and distribution of capital. Rudner traces the growth of these structures over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, exploring the ways in which Indian merchant-bankers used indigenous social structures to profit from colonial rule. Caste and Capitalism in Colonial India is the first comprehensive analysis of the interdependence among Indian business practice, social organization, and religion. Rudner's findings have significant implications for scholars of Asian history and anthropology.

Author : David West Rudner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520376533

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Caste and Capitalism in Colonial India by David West Rudner Pdf

David Rudner's richly detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of a South Indian merchant-banking caste provides the first comprehensive analysis of the interdependence among Indian business practice, social organization, and religion. Exploring noncapitalist economic formations and the impact of colonial rule on indigenous commercial systems, Rudner argues that caste and commerce are inextricably linked through formal and informal institutions. The practices crucial to the formation and distribution of capital are also a part of this linkage. Rudner challenges the widely held assumptions that all castes are organized either by marriage alliance or status hierarchy and that caste structures are incompatible with the "rational" conduct of business. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

Author : Salim Lakha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Ahmadābād (India)
ISBN : UOM:39015023593018

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Capitalism and Class in Colonial India by Salim Lakha Pdf

Author : Harish Damodaran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Businesspeople
ISBN : UOM:39015080548061

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India's New Capitalists by Harish Damodaran Pdf

Author : Tirthankar Roy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107186927

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A Business History of India by Tirthankar Roy Pdf

Studying firms and entrepreneurs over three centuries, this book unravels the historical roots of the impressive business growth witnessed in contemporary India.

Author : Nicholas B. Dirks
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400840946

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Castes of Mind by Nicholas B. Dirks Pdf

When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survival of ancient India nor a single system that reflects a core cultural value. Rather than a basic expression of Indian tradition, caste is a modern phenomenon--the product of a concrete historical encounter between India and British colonial rule. Dirks does not contend that caste was invented by the British. But under British domination caste did become a single term capable of naming and above all subsuming India's diverse forms of social identity and organization. Dirks traces the career of caste from the medieval kingdoms of southern India to the textual traces of early colonial archives; from the commentaries of an eighteenth-century Jesuit to the enumerative obsessions of the late-nineteenth-century census; from the ethnographic writings of colonial administrators to those of twentieth-century Indian scholars seeking to rescue ethnography from its colonial legacy. The book also surveys the rise of caste politics in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the emergence of caste-based movements that have threatened nationalist consensus. Castes of Mind is an ambitious book, written by an accomplished scholar with a rare mastery of centuries of Indian history and anthropology. It uses the idea of caste as the basis for a magisterial history of modern India. And in making a powerful case that the colonial past continues to haunt the Indian present, it makes an important contribution to current postcolonial theory and scholarship on contemporary Indian politics.

Author : Irfan Habib
Publisher : Verso
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1859848125

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Class, Caste and Colony by Irfan Habib Pdf

In a major new work, Indian historian Irfan Habib ranges across the political and economic landscape of pre-colonial and British India to provide an authoritative account of Indian history. Habib examines the place of peasantry and caste, the potential for indigenous capitalist development, the various forms of class struggle, the nature of capital accumulation under the Mughals, and the impact of colonialism on the Indian economy.

Author : Rajnarayan Chandavarkar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0521596920

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Imperial Power and Popular Politics by Rajnarayan Chandavarkar Pdf

In this series of interconnected essays, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar offers a powerful revisionist analysis of the relationship between class and politics in India between the Mutiny and Independence. Dr Chandavarkar rejects the 'Orientalist' view of Indian social and economic development as exceptional and somehow distinct from that prevailing in capitalist societies elsewhere, and reasserts the critical role of the working classes in shaping the pattern of Indian capitalist development. Sustained in argument and elegant in exposition, these essays represent a major contribution not only to the history of the Indian working classes, but to the history of industrial capitalism and colonialism as a whole. Imperial Power and Popular Politics will be essential reading for all scholars and students of recent political, economic, and social history, social theory, and cultural and colonial studies.--Publisher description.

Author : Vladimir Ivanovich Pavlov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Middle class
ISBN : UOM:39015051178088

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The Indian Capitalist Class by Vladimir Ivanovich Pavlov Pdf

Author : Iman Kumar Mitra,Ranabir Samaddar,Samita Sen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811010378

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Accumulation in Post-Colonial Capitalism by Iman Kumar Mitra,Ranabir Samaddar,Samita Sen Pdf

This volume looks at how accumulation in postcolonial capitalism blurs the boundaries of space, institutions, forms, financial regimes, labour processes, and economic segments on one hand, and creates zones and corridors on the other. It draws our attention to the peculiar but structurally necessary coexistence of both primitive and virtual modes of accumulation in the postcolony. From these two major inquiries it develops a new understanding of postcolonial capitalism. The case studies in this volume discuss the production of urban spaces of capital extraction, institutionalization of postcolonial finance capital, gendering of work forms, establishment of new forms of labour, formation of and changes in caste and racial identities and networks, and securitization—and thereby confirm that no study of contemporary capitalism is complete without thoroughly addressing the postcolonial condition. By challenging the established dualities between citizenship-based civil society and welfare-based political society, exploring critically the question of colonial and postcolonial difference, and foregrounding the material processes of accumulation against the culturalism of postcolonial studies, this volume redefines postcolonial studies in South Asia and beyond. It is invaluable reading for students and scholars of South Asian studies, sociology, cultural and critical anthropology, critical and praxis studies, and political science.

Author : Gail Omvedt
Publisher : Bombay : Scientific Socialist Education Trust
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015058017495

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Cultural Revolt in a Colonial Society by Gail Omvedt Pdf

Author : Śekhara Bandyopādhyāẏa,Sekhar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Caste
ISBN : 0198075960

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Caste, Protest And Identity In Colonial India by Śekhara Bandyopādhyāẏa,Sekhar Pdf

Author : Amiya Kumar Bagchi
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781843310686

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Capital and Labour Redefined by Amiya Kumar Bagchi Pdf

This book provides a historical background to the formation of the Indian capitalist class from before British colonial rule in India. It analyses the nature of that class, the ways in which it changed under colonial rule, and the state of independent India; it also sets some of the peculiarities of capitalist organization in India and the ideology of big capital in their historical context. The evolution of the working class in India is analysed in its dialectical interaction with global capital and Indian capitalism. The author challenges the view that the tensions within working class movements caused by caste, communal divisions or gender discrimination are to be attributed to primordial loyalties, emphasizing instead the influence of the deliberate strategies adopted by capitalists and of changes in the structure of global and Indian capitalism. Finally, the book investigates the impact of capital-friendly liberalization on the fortunes of the working class in the Third World.

Author : Ritu Birla
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822392477

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Stages of Capital by Ritu Birla Pdf

In Stages of Capital, Ritu Birla brings research on nonwestern capitalisms into conversation with postcolonial studies to illuminate the historical roots of India’s market society. Between 1870 and 1930, the British regime in India implemented a barrage of commercial and contract laws directed at the “free” circulation of capital, including measures regulating companies, income tax, charitable gifting, and pension funds, and procedures distinguishing gambling from speculation and futures trading. Birla argues that this understudied legal infrastructure institutionalized a new object of sovereign management, the market, and along with it, a colonial concept of the public. In jurisprudence, case law, and statutes, colonial market governance enforced an abstract vision of modern society as a public of exchanging, contracting actors free from the anachronistic constraints of indigenous culture. Birla reveals how the categories of public and private infiltrated colonial commercial law, establishing distinct worlds for economic and cultural practice. This bifurcation was especially apparent in legal dilemmas concerning indigenous or “vernacular” capitalists, crucial engines of credit and production that operated through networks of extended kinship. Focusing on the story of the Marwaris, a powerful business group renowned as a key sector of India’s capitalist class, Birla demonstrates how colonial law governed vernacular capitalists as rarefied cultural actors, so rendering them illegitimate as economic agents. Birla’s innovative attention to the negotiations between vernacular and colonial systems of valuation illustrates how kinship-based commercial groups asserted their legitimacy by challenging and inhabiting the public/private mapping. Highlighting the cultural politics of market governance, Stages of Capital is an unprecedented history of colonial commercial law, its legal fictions, and the formation of the modern economic subject in India.

Author : Jan Breman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108482417

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Capitalism, Inequality and Labour in India by Jan Breman Pdf

Jan Breman analyses labour bondage in India's changing political economy from 1962 to 2017. Focusing on what has happened since Independence, he argues that colonial rule changed the country's agrarian economy. Capitalism has led to progressive inequality, lack of welfare and the exclusion of the dispossessed from mainstream society.