Community and public culture
Subtitle: The Marwaris in Calcutta, c.1897-1997
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2002
Language: eng
Format: Unknown Binding
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9780231503723
Subjects: Calcutta; Calcutta (India); Electronic books; Marwaris; Social life and customs
Description: Adroitly and effectively combining historical and anthropological approaches, this study examines the growth and character of Marwari identity as it developed among migrants from Rajasthan who grew to become the dominant commercial and industrial elite in Calcutta. With its view from both the archive and close participant observation, Hardgrove gives us here the first richly textured, intellectually sophisticated, account of this important business community.  Sensitive alike to historical change, cultural theory, and ethnographic detail, Hardgrove's work cuts a new path in the repertoire of modern Indian history.