Bazaar India: Markets, Society, and the Colonial State in Bihar

by Anand A. Yang

Book Overview

The role of markets in linking local communities to larger networks of commerce, culture, and political power is the central element in Anand A. Yang's provocative and original study. Yang uses bazaars in the northeast Indian state of Bihar during the colonial period as the site of his investigation. The bazaar provides a distinctive locale for posing fundamental questions regarding indigenous societies under colonialism and for highlighting less...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520211006
• ISBN13: 9780520211001
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"