This detailed ethnographic and historial analysis of a southern Indian merchant-banking caste provides an analysis of the links between Indian business practice and social and religious issues. It explores non-capitalist economic formations and the impact of colonial rule on indigenous commercial systems, and argues that caste and commerce are inextricably linked to the formation and distribution of capital. The author challenges the assumptions that all castes are organized either by marriage alliances or status hierarchy, and that caste structures are incompatible with the conduct of business.
- ISBN10 0520083504
- ISBN13 9780520083509
- Publish Date 21 December 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 March 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 370
- Language English