Community and Public Culture: The Marwaris in Calcutta
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Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
0195668030
Length
xxix+309p., Plates.
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This book explores the historical and cultural processes by which people under colonial and postcolonial rule come to regard themselves as part of a 'community'; sharing a particular local and pan-regional ethnic community identity. This ethno-historical case study of community formation focuses on the migrant business and industrialist community in Calcutta, the Marwaris. Anne Hardgrove maps the historical formation of the Marwari Community of Calcutta and ...
