Indian Business and Nationalist Politics 1931–39 Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Indian capital
- 2 Crisis and opportunities
- 3 Business, Civil Disobedience and the reforms 1931–1935
- 4 The turning point: capitalists and Congressmen 1935–1937
- 5 Business, the central government and the Congress 1937–1939
- 6 Indian business and the Congress provincial governments 1937–1939
- Conclusion
- APPENDICES
- Biographical notes
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Indian capital
- 2 Crisis and opportunities
- 3 Business, Civil Disobedience and the reforms 1931–1935
- 4 The turning point: capitalists and Congressmen 1935–1937
- 5 Business, the central government and the Congress 1937–1939
- 6 Indian business and the Congress provincial governments 1937–1939
- Conclusion
- APPENDICES
- Biographical notes
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index
Summary
This book has evolved from a Ph.D. dissertation presented at Cambridge in 1978. Part of Chapter 4 and most of Chapter 6 have appeared in a slightly different form as ‘Indian Business and the Congress Provincial Governments 1937–1939’ in Modern Asian Studies, 15, 3, July 1981.
The research has been started thanks to a Knox Scholarship from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1973–74 and to a Smuts Memorial Fund Scholarship for Commonwealth Studies in 1974–75. Since 1975 it has been generously financed by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.
I owe a great debt to the librarians and the staffs of the following institutions: Bibliothèque du Centre d'Etudes de l'lnde et de l'Asie du Sud, Paris; British Library and India Office Library and Records, London; Cambridge University Library, Churchill College Library, and South Asian Centre Library, Cambridge; National Archives of India, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Library, Delhi; Indian Merchants' Chamber Library, Bombay; and Millowners' Association, Ahmedabad; and in particular to Dr R. Bingle of the India Office Library and to Dr V. C. Joshi, previously of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library.
Many people in Britain, India and France have helped me in many ways in the course of my research. I cannot mention them all here.
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- Indian Business and Nationalist Politics 1931–39The Indigenous Capitalist Class and the Rise of the Congress Party, pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1985