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

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Main Author: Birla, Ritu, 1965-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Duke University Press, 2009
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Table of 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.