Debt, trust, and reputation : extra-legal finance in Northern India /
Schwecke, Sebastian,author.
"This book studies the evolution of financial markets operating beyond the reach of the law and without recourse to legal practices, predominantly in an urban north Indian setting centering on the city of Banaras in North India. It straddles the divide between social and economic history and economic anthropology, and is based on archival and ethnographic research conducted between 2011 and 2019. The author emphasizes the role of the Indian state in shaping credit markets and creating the division between a juridically-procedurally defined 'capitalist,' and a reputationally defined extra-legal financial market. Also highlighted is the reactions by market participants to the disappearance of both the legal and the 'traditional' enforcement mechanisms for contractual obligations, and the resulting emergence of a reputational economy dependent almost comprehensively on trust"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This book studies the evolution of financial markets operating beyond the reach of the law and without recourse to legal practices, predominantly in an urban north Indian setting centering on the city of Banaras in North India. It straddles the divide between social and economic history and economic anthropology, and is based on archival and ethnographic research conducted between 2011 and 2019. The author emphasizes the role of the Indian state in shaping credit markets and creating the division between a juridically-procedurally defined 'capitalist,' and a reputationally defined extra-legal financial market. Also highlighted is the reactions by market participants to the disappearance of both the legal and the 'traditional' enforcement mechanisms for contractual obligations, and the resulting emergence of a reputational economy dependent almost comprehensively on trust"--
Financial services industry
Capital market
Finance