Debts and debtors
By: edited by Charles Malamoud.
Contributors: Malamoud, Charles.
Publisher: Vikas Pub. House
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Debt -- India.; Debtor and creditor -- India.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [225]-233.
"This volume is the English translation of volume 4 of Puruṣārtha, a journal published in Paris by the Centre d'etudes de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud"--T. p. verso.
Includes index.
"Jointly sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, and Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris."--P. facing t.p.
Table of contents: title: The debt to ancestors and the category of sapinda / Louis Dumont; title: The theory of debt in Brahmanism / Charles Malamoud; title: Usage and usury in Indian folk tales / Martin Todorov; title: Creditors, kings and death / Jean-Claude Galey; title: Peasant debt in colonial Bihar / Jacques Pouchepadass; title: From internal to external debt / Eric Meyer; title: Moneylenders and clan headmen / Phillippe Sagant.