Pub Date : 2021-08-09DOI: 10.4324/9780429431012-14
Sebastian Schwecke
Discourses on ‘informality’ in South Asia typically refrain from providing historical context or emphasise postcolonial history. Its historical antecedents in economic interaction are strongly related to colonial attempts to ‘formalise’ the economy as part of a project of ‘modernisation’, however, and the responses by economic actors seeking to cope with, or evade, the direction of this colonial endeavour. Partially, these actors made use in these attempts of prevalent socio-economic structures frequently summarised under the rubric of the bazaar economy. Yet the encounter with colonial ‘modernity’ also encompassed reinterpretations and reimaginations of economic interaction. This chapter studies the historical development of ‘informality’ by observing patterns in late colonial commercial, financial, and labour markets.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-09DOI: 10.4324/9780429431012-24
M. P. Brunner
{"title":"Schooling the subcontinent","authors":"M. P. Brunner","doi":"10.4324/9780429431012-24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429431012-24","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348112,"journal":{"name":"Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131978074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"State formation in India","authors":"M. Mann","doi":"10.4324/9780429431012-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429431012-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348112,"journal":{"name":"Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115387003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-09DOI: 10.4324/9780429431012-45
Maria Framke
{"title":"Indian humanitarianism under colonial rule","authors":"Maria Framke","doi":"10.4324/9780429431012-45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429431012-45","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348112,"journal":{"name":"Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114536832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-09DOI: 10.4324/9780429431012-27
N. Sinha
{"title":"Questioning ‘railway-centrism’","authors":"N. Sinha","doi":"10.4324/9780429431012-27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429431012-27","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348112,"journal":{"name":"Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128662043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-09DOI: 10.4324/9780429431012-46
Joanna Simonow
{"title":"Famine relief in colonial South Asia, 1858–1947","authors":"Joanna Simonow","doi":"10.4324/9780429431012-46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429431012-46","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348112,"journal":{"name":"Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125214875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-09DOI: 10.4324/9780429431012-12
A. Sarkar
{"title":"The emergence of a ‘modern’ urban-industrial workforce in India, 1860–1914","authors":"A. Sarkar","doi":"10.4324/9780429431012-12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429431012-12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348112,"journal":{"name":"Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124711593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-09DOI: 10.4324/9780429431012-10
Teresa Segura-Garcia
{"title":"The Raj's uncanny other","authors":"Teresa Segura-Garcia","doi":"10.4324/9780429431012-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429431012-10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348112,"journal":{"name":"Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129535553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-09DOI: 10.4324/9780429431012-35
B. V. D. Linden
{"title":"Rhythms of the Raj","authors":"B. V. D. Linden","doi":"10.4324/9780429431012-35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429431012-35","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348112,"journal":{"name":"Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia","volume":"21 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132026431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Caste in British India","authors":"Dwaipayan Sen","doi":"10.4324/9780429431012-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429431012-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348112,"journal":{"name":"Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia","volume":"370 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122924044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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