Stages of capital
Subtitle: law, culture, and market governance in late colonial India
By: Ritu Birla.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780822342458; 9780822342687
Subjects: Rule of law -- India; India -- Politics and government -- 1857-1919; India -- Politics and government -- 1919-1947; India -- Economic policy; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Economic policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The proper swindle : commercial and financial legislation of the 1880s; title: Capitalism's idolatry : the law of charitable trusts, mortmain, and the firm as; title: Family, c. 1870/1920; title: For general public utility : sovereignty, philanthropy, and market governance; title: 1890/1920; title: Hedging bets : speculation, gambling, and market ethics, 1890/1930; title: Economic agents, cultural subjects : gender, the joint family, and the making of; title: Capitalist subjects, 1900/1940; title: Conclusion : colonial modernity and the social worlds of capital.