Community and public culture
Subtitle: the Marwaris in Calcutta, c.1897-1997
By: Anne Hardgrove.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York; Chichester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780231122160
Subjects: Marwaris -- India -- Calcutta; Calcutta (India) -- Social conditions
Description: "This book explores the historical and cultural processes by which people under colonial and postcolonial rule come to regard themselves as part of a "community," sharing a particular local and panregional ethnic community identity. The focus of this ethnohistorical case study of community formation is a wealthy and controversial migrant business community in Calcutta, the Marwaris."--Pref.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-318).
Table of contents: title: Community and public culture; title: Mapping community in Rajasthan and Calcutta; title: Merchant houses as spectacles of modernity; title: Marwaris and moral economies : from rain the ghee; title: Social reform and the women's question in Marwari public life; title: Sati worship and Marwari public identity in India.