Law, Culture, and Market Governance in Late Colonial India
by
Ritu Birla
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2009
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...