Stages of capital : law, culture, and market governance in late colonial India /
Ritu Birla.
- Hyderabad : Orient BlackSwan, 2009.
- xi, 346 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-328) and index.
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.
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Rule of law--India.
India--Politics and government--1857-1919. India--Politics and government--1919-1947. India--Economic policy. Great Britain--Colonies--Economic policy.