Company of Kinsmen Enterprise and Community in South Asian History 1700 to 1940

Company of Kinsmen Enterprise and Community in South Asian History 1700 to 1940

The book shows how the colonial economy was characterized by a co-existence of universalizing principles of formal law, wider commercial networks, and the persistence of informal collectives. It shows how the idea of organizing people to serve economic ends took concrete shape in early modern and colonial India.