Bazaar India markets, society, and the colonial state in Gangetic Bihar /

The role of markets in linking local communities to larger networks of commerce, culture, and political power is the central element in Anand A. Yang's provocative and original study. Yang uses bazaars in the northeast Indian state of Bihar during the colonial period as the site of his investig...

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Main Author: Yang, Anand A.
Other Authors: EBSCOhost.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [1998]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 305 pages) : illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Market, Village, and Colonial State in South Asia
  • Gangetic Bihar:+ Circuits of Exchange and Modes of Transportation
  • The "City of Discontent": Patna in the Age of "Revolution"
  • The "Religious" Places of Exchange: Melas in the Nineteenth-Century Age of Colonialism
  • The Rural Places of Exchange: Markets in the Age of Gandhi
  • Traders, Merchants, and Markets: 1765-1947.