
Merchants and Colonialism
Amiya Bagchi(Author)
OUP India (Publisher)
Published on 23. May 2019
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-0-19-948668-7 (ISBN)
Description
Merchants and Colonialism is part of the Occasional Papers series circulated by the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata. Amiya Bagchi provides a historiographic account of the traditional role of merchants in pre colonial India and identifies how these roles were different from the role of the capitalist in post-colonial India. In general, the behaviour of merchants in precapitalist societies was, according to Bagchi, widely different from that of capitalists in developed capitalist societies. In developed capitalist societies, capitalists, generally with state support, played a very important part in modifying techniques of production and seeking ways of expanding their markets. By contrast, the pace of modification of techniques of production was slower in precapitalist societies and owners of capital did not play a significant role in such modification.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 180 mm
Width: 117 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
159 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-948668-7 (9780199486687)
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Amiya Kumar Bagchi
Merchants and Colonialism
Freedom, Resistance, and Statelessness in Upland Northeast India
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12/2018
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Persons
Amiya Kumar Bagchi is a distinguished political economist who has contributed to the Marxist perspective, development studies and political economy. A former Professor at the CSSSC, he has also taught at Cambridge, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences in Paris and Cornell among others. He has been the recipient of the VKRV Rao Award for Economics, 1980.
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Content
Series Note
General Introduction to the Series
Introduction by Lakshmi Subramanium
Merchants and Colonialism
Index
General Introduction to the Series
Introduction by Lakshmi Subramanium
Merchants and Colonialism
Index