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No birds of passage : a history of Gujarati Muslim business communities, 1800-1975 / Michael O'Sullivan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2023Description: pages cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780674271906
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.095475 23/eng/20230317
LOC classification:
  • HF3786 .O885 2023
Contents:
The Making of Gujarati Muslim Middle Power, c. 1800-1850 -- The Vise of Legal Exceptionalism and Colonial Capitalism, 1850-1880 -- Clarifying and Contesting Religious Authority, 1880-1914 -- Racialized Empire, Thrifting, and Swadeshi, 1880-1912 -- Corporate Crises from the Balkan Wars to the Great Depression, 1912-1929 -- The Battle over Jamaat Trusts, 1923-1935 -- The Jamaats and the End of the Raj, 1936-1947 -- Decolonization and Postcolonial Dilemmas, 1947-1975
Summary: "A sweeping account of three Gujarati Muslim trading castes - the Bohras, Khojas, and Memons - whose commercial success over nearly two centuries sheds new light on the history of capitalism, Islam, and empire in South Asia"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes index.

The Making of Gujarati Muslim Middle Power, c. 1800-1850 -- The Vise of Legal Exceptionalism and Colonial Capitalism, 1850-1880 -- Clarifying and Contesting Religious Authority, 1880-1914 -- Racialized Empire, Thrifting, and Swadeshi, 1880-1912 -- Corporate Crises from the Balkan Wars to the Great Depression, 1912-1929 -- The Battle over Jamaat Trusts, 1923-1935 -- The Jamaats and the End of the Raj, 1936-1947 -- Decolonization and Postcolonial Dilemmas, 1947-1975

"A sweeping account of three Gujarati Muslim trading castes - the Bohras, Khojas, and Memons - whose commercial success over nearly two centuries sheds new light on the history of capitalism, Islam, and empire in South Asia"-- Provided by publisher.

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