This volume presents a systematic and fresh interpretation of a mid-second-century AD papyrus - the so-called Muziris papyrus - which preserves on its two sides fragments of a unique pair of documents: on one side, a loan agreement to finance a commercial enterprise to South Ind…
Several Indian firms have grown explosively over the last two decades since India adopted wholesale neo-liberal policies in 1991. Amar Nayak attributes the expansion of these Indian firms and their multinational businesses to the owners' ability to manoeuvre and mould key agents…
Indian firms have grown since India adopted wholesale neo-liberal policies in 1991. Nayak attributes the expansion of these Indian firms and their multinational businesses to the owners' ability to manoeuvre and mould key agents in the external environment rather than to the int…
This three-volume collection of studies carried out by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) contains relevant and dominant streams of researches conducted in sociology and social anthropology during the last decade. It looks at the history of Indian sociology pr…
This three-volume collection of studies carried out by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) contains relevant and dominant streams of researches conducted in sociology and social anthropology during the last decade. It looks at the history of Indian sociology pr…
"The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire, c. 1710-1780 deals with the magnificent world of Afghan nomads, horse-dealers and mercenaries bridging the frontiers between the old metropolitan centres of India, Iran and Central Asia. During the eighteenth century they succeeded in establi…
"India and the Silk Roads is a global history of a continental interior, the first to comprehensively examine the textual and material traces of India's caravan trade with central Asia. But what was the fate of these overland connections in the ages of sail and steam? This book …
Essays previously appeared in Indian economic and social history review. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Business in India was traditionally the preserve of certain ₁Bania₂ communities clubbed under the Vaishya order of the classical Hindu four-order social hierarchy. The term ₁Bania₂ even acquired a generic connotation referring to any village moneylender, grocer, wholesaler or la…
