Company of Kinsmen: Enterprise and Community in South Asian History 1700-1940

by Tirthankar Roy

This book chronicles how the concept of organizing people to serve economic ends emerged in early modern and colonial India. It examines rules of cooperation, why people decided to join forces, how disputes were settled, and how cooperative communities became increasingly unstable in more modern times. It focuses on five dimensions: actor, agent, time, purpose, and region. The leading actors are peasants, labourers, artisans, merchants/bankers, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199486808
• ISBN13: 9780199486809
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.6"