A comprehensive history of business in India from 3000 B.C. to 2000 A.D.
By: P.N. Agarwala.
Publisher: Tata McGraw-Hill Pub. Co.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New Delhi; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 722
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 681-693) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: SECTION I: CURRENT TRENDS; title: 1. The Challenges of the Next Millennium and Knowledge-based Society; title: 2. Asian Century in the Making; title: 3. The Multilateral Trading System: WTO; title: 4. Role of MNCs in FDI/Portfolio Investment; title: 5. Industrial Deceleration 1996-98, Road to Recovery 1999-2000; title: and Slow Down in Fiscal 2000-2001; title: 6. Textiles, Jute and Chemicals; title: 7. Infrastructure and Industries-Iron Ore, Coal, Aluminium, Copper, Lead,; title: Zinc, Passenger Cars/CV; title: 8. Engineering Exports, Ports and Infrastructure; title: 9. The Public Sector in the Economy; title: 10. Privatisation-Lessons from Developing/Developed Countries' Experience; title: 11. Role of Small and Medium Enterprises in the Economy; title: 12. Development of Managerial Capitalism in India; title: 13. The New Entrepreneurs-Birlas, Ambanis, Godrej, Mahendras, Mafatlal, Lalbhai,; title: JK Singhania, Thapars, LN Mittal, Khaitan, Bharat Shah, Azim Premji,; title: Narayana Murthy, Shiv Nadar, Swaraj Paul; title: 14. Business Groups Facing the Challenges of the Globalisation; title: SECTION II: ORIGINS OF TRADE IN INDIA; title: 15. The Indus Valley Civilisation of 3000 B.C. Ancient Trade Links; title: with Egypt, Phoenicia, the Gulf and Mesopotamia; title: 16. Beginnings of India's Trade and Commerce; title: 17., Leading Commercial Cities: Indus Valley, Maurya and Gupta Periods; title: SECTION III: GENESIS OF INDIAN TRADE FROM DELHI SULTANATE; title: 18. The Sultanate, the Cholas and Vijayanagar Kingdom; title: 19. The Age of e of the Voyages: Portuguese and Anglo-Dutch Commerce; title: 20. Anglo-Dutch Commerce; title: 21. Seventeenth Century: Pattern of Trade with West Europe/East India Company; title: 22 Indo-British Trade: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; title: 23. Indo-British Trade: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century-East India Company; title: 24. Commerce in heMughal Period; title: 25. East India Company: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; title: 26. B ast India Company: Eighteenth Century; title: SECTION IV: THE PRE-INDEPENDENCEERA; title: 27. Rise of Chambers of Commerce and Industry and theiFocus on National Issues; title: 28. The Economy from the Middle oftheNineteenth Cent; title: 29. The Emergence of Industrial Groups in Bombaysand Calcutta; title: 30. The Rise of the Business Communities and ManagingAgencySystem; title: 31. The Growth of Joint Stock Companies: Nineteenth andTentieth Centuries; title: 32. Corporate Management; title: 33. The Genesis of the ManagingAgencies; title: 34. The Saga of the Textile Industry; title: 35. Infrastructure and Engineering; title: 36. Plantation, Jute, Chemicals, Minerals, Metals and Cement; title: 37. Sassoons, Tatas, Sir RN Mukherjee andMartin Bu; title: 38. Industrial Houses in the Punjabf; title: 39. Renowned Industrialists of Guarat, Maharashtra and Misc. Companies; title: SECTION V: THE POST-INDEPENDENCE ERA; title: 40. Banking, Insurance and StockExchanges; title: 41. The Conceration of Economic Po and the SocialRespoities of Business; title: 42. Epilogue; title: Annexure A; title: Annexure B; title: Annexure C; title: Annexure D; title: Annexure E; title: Select Bibliography; title: Index.