Business History is an emerging area of enquiry. Though there are a number of works on business houses of India, history of Indian business has not attracted many historians, except Oxford History of Indian Business and Ficci’s History of Indian Business through the ages. This book is a much more specialized treatment of the subject by experts on the field. This collective work critically examines the trends and patterns of Indian business through the ages bringing the story down to modern times when it fuses with nationalism. It firmly establishes the fact that India was not only steeped in spiritualism for which it allegedly remained economically backward but it also had a scintillating saga of materialist doctrines and materialist development.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Chittabrata Palit
Dr. Chittabrata Palit, M.A. (Cal), PhD (Cantab), FRAS (Londan) is a senior professor of history at Jadavpur University, Calcutta. He is an established authority on the subject. He has served as a member of the National Commission for the History of science(1987-2001), principal investigator of a project on Science and nationalism for the Indian National science Academy for the last six years and currently he principal investigator of a UGC major project on Pharmacy in the Ayurvedic Texts in eastern India. He has numerous books on the history of sciences including medicine to his credit.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Pranjal Kumar Bhattacharya
Dr. Pranjal Kumar Bhattacharya is a retired Professor of History at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. An authority on Maratha History, he has to his credit ‘British Residency at Poona’, ‘Hundred Years of the History of Terrorism in India’ and ‘a host of papers on business history of India’.
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