India working : essays on society and economy / Barbara Harriss-White.
India working : essays on society and economy / Barbara Harriss-White.
India working : essays on society and economy / Barbara Harriss-White.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Date
2003.
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N338.954/ 111
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English
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xix, 316 p. : ill., ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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1. Introduction: the character of the Indian economy -- 2. The workforce and its social structures -- 3. Indian development and the intermediate classes -- 4. The local State and the informal economy -- 5. Gender, family businesses and business families -- 6. India's religious pluralism and its impl...
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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England
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2003.
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"By drawing on her extensive fieldwork in India, and on the adjacent theoretical and empirical literature, Barbara Harriss-White describes the working of the Indian economy through its most important social structures of accumulation: labour, capital, the State, gender, religious plurality, caste and the economic organisation of physical space. The...
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India working : essays on society and economy / Barbara Harriss-White.
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Contemporary South Asia ; 8.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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0521007631 (pbk.) :
9780521809795
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0521007631 (pbk.)
9780521809795 :
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