Birla, Ritu, 1965-

Stages of capital : law, culture, and market governance in late colonial India / Ritu Birla. - New Dehi : Orient Blackswan, 2009. - xi, 346 p. ; 23 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-328) and index.

The proper swindle : commercial and financial legislation of the 1880s -- Capitalism's idolatry : the law of charitable trusts, mortmain, and the firm as -- Family, c. 1870/1920 -- For general public utility : sovereignty, philanthropy, and market governance -- 1890/1920 -- Hedging bets : speculation, gambling, and market ethics, 1890/1930 -- Economic agents, cultural subjects : gender, the joint family, and the making of -- Capitalist subjects, 1900/1940 -- Conclusion : colonial modernity and the social worlds of capital.

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Rule of law--India.


India--Politics and government--1857-1919.
India--Politics and government--1919-1947.
India--Economic policy.
Great Britain--Colonies--Economic policy.

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