Indian Business and Nationalist Politics 193139
Subtitle: The Indigenous Capitalist Class and the Rise of the Congress Party (Cambridge South Asian Studies)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 30, 1985
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780521265515
Subjects: World history; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; History / India
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.