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Author : W. S. Weerasooria
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Nattukottai Chettiar Merchant Bankers in Ceylon written by W. S. Weerasooria and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nira Wickramasinghe
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824830168
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Sri Lanka in the Modern Age written by Nira Wickramasinghe and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-03-31 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1970s civil war has left Sri Lanka in an almost permanent state of crisis; conventional histories of the country by liberal and Marxist scholars in the last two decades have thus tended to focus on the state’s failure to accommodate the needs and demands of the minorities. The entire history of the twentieth century has been tied to this one key issue. Sri Lanka in the Modern Age offers a fresh perspective based on new research. Above all, the author has written a history of the peoples of Sri Lanka rather than a history of the nation-state.
Author : Steven Kemper
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226430409
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Buying and Believing written by Steven Kemper and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advertising is a central part of the global system of commerce and culture. Every day it exposes consumers around the world to practices associated with the West, urban life, prosperity, and modernity. One consequence of this exposure is that it frees people's imaginations from time and place, and imposes a new and foreign reality. In this book Steven Kemper looks at a parallel trend, arguing that advertising firms in Nairobi, Caracas, and Colombo also domesticate the imagination, insinuating images into people's minds of the traditional as well as the modern, the local as much as the global. Drawing upon fieldwork conducted over thirty years, Kemper examines the Sri Lankan advertising industry to show how executives draw on their skills as folk ethnographers to "Sri Lankanize" commodities and practices to make them locally desirable, essentially producing new forms of Sri Lankan culture. Addressing many of the most pressing agendas of contemporary anthropology, Buying and Becoming breaks new ground in studies of culture and globalization.
Author : David West Rudner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520376536
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Caste and Capitalism in Colonial India written by David West Rudner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Rudner's richly detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of a South Indian merchant-banking caste provides the first comprehensive analysis of the interdependence among Indian business practice, social organization, and religion. Exploring noncapitalist economic formations and the impact of colonial rule on indigenous commercial systems, Rudner argues that caste and commerce are inextricably linked through formal and informal institutions. The practices crucial to the formation and distribution of capital are also a part of this linkage. Rudner challenges the widely held assumptions that all castes are organized either by marriage alliance or status hierarchy and that caste structures are incompatible with the "rational" conduct of business. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
Author : Heiko Schrader
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Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A Comprehensive Analysis of Chettiar Finance in Colonial Asia written by Heiko Schrader and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stuart Muirhead
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351947419
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Crisis Banking in the East written by Stuart Muirhead and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chartered Mercantile Bank is one of the constituent banks of the huge Hongkong and Shanghai bank. This study charts its first 40 years as one of the pioneering banks of the Far East. The Chartered Mercantile became the leading exchange bank in India and South East Asia whilst always retaining its head office in the pivotal London market. Based upon meticulous research using a particularly rich set of banking archives, the book describes the complex political and financial circumstances on the subcontinent during the bank's early years and introduces the personalities in the Indian business and London banking worlds who guided the infant institution. The volatility of local markets is analysed, with portraits of the banks and merchant houses which did not survive the many financial crises in the East also included. This book will do much to remedy the lack of existing research into international finance, and Eastern banking in particular, in the 19th century. It provides an inside view of the workings of an Eastern bank - the nature of its business, methods of payment and exchange, recruitment and career patterns of staff, and includes valuable new material on the role of European bankers in an eastern setting.
Author : Ajay Gandhi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108486789
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Markets in Modern India written by Ajay Gandhi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using historical and ethnographic analyses, this book shows how Indian markets are embedded in society and politically contested.
Author : Medha M. Kudaisya
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004172793
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Chinese and Indian Business written by Medha M. Kudaisya and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the phenomenal rise of the economies of China and India has led to a proliferation of academic studies. Much of the focus has been on economic performance, development strategies and the comparative advantage of the two economies. A comparative study of business as an agent of change has been lacking This volume brings together articles by leading scholars in the field of Chinese and Indian business who offer fresh perspectives on the historical antecedents of business in the two economies.
Author : Jayati Bhattacharya
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783083638
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities written by Jayati Bhattacharya and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2015-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary collection of essays offers a window onto the overseas Indian and Chinese communities in Asia. Contributors discuss the interactive role of the cultural and religious ‘other’, the diasporic absorption of local beliefs and customs, and the practical business networks and operational mechanisms unique to these communities. Growing out of an international workshop organized by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore and the Centre of Asian Studies at the University of Hong Kong, this volume explores material, cultural and imaginative features of the immigrant communities and brings together these two important communities within a comparative framework.
Author : Denys Lombard
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Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Asian Merchants and Businessmen in the Indian Ocean and the China Sea written by Denys Lombard and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together specialist knowledge on the many important trading and entrepreneurial groups that have dominated the Asian scene over the past centuries. In a series of crisp, relatively short chapters, it traces the long-term history of these groups from the medieval past to the present.
Author : Dale W Adams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000002578
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Undermining Rural Development With Cheap Credit written by Dale W Adams and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1985, twenty-three chapters are brought together in 4 parts dealing with, respectively, problems in rural finance, interest rate policies, politics and finance, and new directions for rural financial markets. In an introduction it is argued that cheap and abundant credit is often regarded as essential for rural development but that actions taken on the basis of this assumption have given disappointing results. Low-interest policies and the improper use of financial markets are seen as the principal reasons for this. It is recommended that higher and more flexible interest rates are allowed and that little or no attention is given to target loans. Informal lenders are thought to offer valuable services therefore they should not be discouraged. More emphasis should be put on voluntary savings mobilization and access to formal loans by non-farm rural firms. It is concluded that many traditional agricultural credit programmes are counterproductive and that attractive product and input prices together with higher yields would be more powerful in stimulating agricultural development.
Author : K S Sandhu
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9812304185
Total Pages : 1029 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Indian Communities in Southeast Asia (First Reprint 2006) written by K S Sandhu and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1029 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Indian Communities in Southeast Asia thirty-one scholars provide an analytical commentary on the contemporary position of ethnic Indians in Southeast Asia. The book is the outcome of a ten-year project undertaken by the editors at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. It is multi-disciplinary in focus and multi-faceted in approach, providing a comprehensive account of the way people originating from the Indian subcontinent have integrated themselves in the various Southeast Asian countires. The study provides insights into understanding how Indians, an intra-ethnically diverse immigrant group, have intermingled in Southeast Asia, a region that itself is ethnically diverse.
Author : Nira Wickramasinghe
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782382437
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Metallic Modern written by Nira Wickramasinghe and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday life in the Crown colony of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was characterized by a direct encounter of people with modernity through the consumption and use of foreign machines – in particular, the Singer sewing machine, but also the gramophone, tramway, bicycle and varieties of industrial equipment. The ‘metallic modern’ of the 19th and early 20th century Ceylon encompassed multiple worlds of belonging and imagination; and enabled diverse conceptions of time to coexist through encounters with Siam, the United States and Japan as well as a new conception of urban space in Colombo. Metallic Modern describes the modern as it was lived and experienced by non-elite groups – tailors, seamstresses, shopkeepers, workers – and suggests that their idea of the modern was nurtured by a changing material world.
Author : S. Muthiah
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Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Indo-Lankans, Their 200-year Saga written by S. Muthiah and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Center for Research Libraries (U.S.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Center for Research Libraries Catalogue: Simha, G. - Zwierzynski, C written by Center for Research Libraries (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 420 pages
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Download or read book Resources and Rule in Zamindari South India, 1802-1903 written by Pamela Gwynne Price and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kalyani Ramnath
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503636100
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Boats in a Storm written by Kalyani Ramnath and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and seeking work. This all changed with the war and as India, Burma, Ceylon, and Malaya wrested independence from the British empire. Set against the tumult of the postwar period, Boats in a Storm centers on the legal struggles of migrants to retain their traditional rhythms and patterns of life, illustrating how they experienced citizenship and decolonization. Even as nascent citizenship regimes and divergent political trajectories of decolonization papered over migrations between South and Southeast Asia, migrants continued to recount cross-border histories in encounters with the law. These accounts, often obscured by national and international political developments, unsettle the notion that static national identities and loyalties had emerged, fully formed and unblemished by migrant pasts, in the aftermath of empires. Drawing on archival materials from India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, London, and Singapore, Kalyani Ramnath narrates how former migrants battled legal requirements to revive prewar circulations of credit, capital, and labor, in a postwar context of rising ethno-nationalisms that accused migrants of stealing jobs and hoarding land. Ultimately, Ramnath shows how decolonization was marked not only by shipwrecked empires and nation-states assembled and ordered from the debris of imperial collapse, but also by these forgotten stories of wartime displacements, their unintended consequences, and long afterlives.
