The Oxford India Anthology of Business History

Herausgeber: Kudaisya, Medha

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Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together rare and important texts illustrating the history of Indian business, this anthology highlights the tremendous diversity of forms, ethnic and regional affiliations, cultural practices, strategies, and types of organization that characterize the role played by Indian business in the making of modern India.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 175mm x 56mm
• Gewicht: 1597g
• ISBN-13: 9780198070191
• ISBN-10: 0198070195
• Artikelnr.: 33127609

Autorenporträt

Medha Kudaisya is a Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction;
* 1.: The Bazaar ? The Bazaar: Changing Structural Characteristics of
the Indigenous Section of the Indian Economy before and after the
Great Depression ? Journal of a Residence in India ? Indigenous
Credit Instruments and Systems ? The Gaddi ? Leadership in the Bazaar
? Organization and Structure of Governance ? Mercantile Codes of
Status ? Bazaar Fortunes: World War I (I) ? Bazaar Fortunes: World
War I (II) ? Historical Continuity and the Present-day Bazaar (I) ?
Historical Continuity and the Present-day Bazaar (II) ? Informal
Credit Markets in India;
* 2.: Mercantile Communities ? Merchant Communities: Identities and
Solidarities ? Indian Merchants in a 'Traditional' Setting: Benaras,
1780-1830 ? The Origins of Parsi Enterprise ? From Community to
Class: The Marwari in a Historical Perspective ? From Madras to
Burma: The Nattukottai Chettiars and Development 1852-1939 ? The
Bohras Today: Characteristics of Business Enterprise ? Small
Industrialists, Big Ambitions: Economic and Political Networks on a
Large Industrial Estate in West India;
* 3.: Family and Firm ? Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars: North Indian
Society in the Age of British Expansion 1770-1870 ? Caste and
Capitalism in Colonial India: The Nattukottai Chettiars ? Life and
Times of G.D. Birla ? A Rare Legacy: Memoirs of B.K. Birla ? The
Structure of Corporate Private Sector: A Study of Concentration,
Ownership and Control ? Family Business in India;
* 4.: Rise of Indian Industry ? The Economic History of India 1857-1947
? Sahibs, Babus, and Banias: Changes in Industrial Control in Eastern
India, 1918-50 ? The Tatas ? Saga of Scindia: Struggle for the
Survival of Indian Shipping and Ship-building ? Bombay as a Business
Centre in the Colonial Period: A Comparison with Calcutta ? Towards
Maturity ? Imperialism and Growth of Indian Capitalism in Twentieth
Century ? Industry and Liberalization ? My Experience of Indian
Management and Present Business Environment ? Aditya Birla's Speech,
27 June 1978 ? Dhirubhai Ambani: the Super Tycoon ? The Polyester
Prince: The Rise of Dhirubhai Ambani;
* 5.: Post-Liberalization Scenario ? 'Industry: From Regulation to
Liberalization ? Post-Liberalization Business Successes ? India's
Global Powerhouses: How They are Taking on the World ? The Creation
of Wealth: The Tatas from the 19th to the 21st Century ? Interview
with Ratan Tata: The Fortune is Indeed at the Bottom of the Pyramid ?
Kumara Managalam Birla: New Frontiers, New Thinking ? N.R. Narayana
Murthy: Values First