Indian Business and Nationalist Politics 193139
Subtitle: The Indigenous Capitalist Class and the Rise of the Congress Party (Cambridge South Asian Studies)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 16, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780521016827
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; World history; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; History: World; History; History - General History; India; Asia - General; Renaissance; History / Asia; History / India; History-Renaissance
First sentence: Although some of India's major business families can trace their ancestry as far back as to the Moghul period, the origins of the modern Indian business class are unmistakably colonial.