Useful Friendship: Europeans and Indians in Early Calcutta

by Peter Robb

This book describes how friendship or quasi-friendly behaviour underwrote British life and work in Calcutta before and after 1800, even between patrons and clients, and when personal relations were not amicable. Amid the uncertainties as a new town was created, the parameters of proper behaviour were defined by sociability, trust, and reputation. The book explains friendship's role in credit and debt; in town-development, securing contracts, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198099185
• ISBN13: 9780198099185
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.6"