Bombay's people, 1860-98 : insolvents in the city / Asiya Siddiqi.

By:

Siddiqi, Asiya

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2017Edition: First editionDescription: xxii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780199472208 (hardback)

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DDC classification:

23 330.954792035 SID 010581

Contents:

1.Business and Social Relationships in Nineteenth-Century Bombay 2.The Bigger Merchants 3.Reading the Records: Literacy and Social Occupational Stratification 4.Religion and Occupation 5.Insolvent Women 6.Ayesha's World: A Butcher's Family in Nineteenth-Century Bombay.

Summary: Fluctuations in the global price of cotton had a cataclysmic effect on the people of Bombay. Based on close to 20,000 individual petitions of insolvents submitted to the Bombay High Court during the second half of the nineteenth century, this work maps patterns of income, literacy levels and connections between religion and occupation. The author explores local, colonial and global relationships during a crucial phase of the transformation of Indian economy andsociety.

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Includes index.

1.Business and Social Relationships in Nineteenth-Century Bombay
2.The Bigger Merchants
3.Reading the Records: Literacy and Social
Occupational Stratification
4.Religion and Occupation
5.Insolvent Women
6.Ayesha's World: A Butcher's Family in Nineteenth-Century Bombay.

Fluctuations in the global price of cotton had a cataclysmic effect on the people of Bombay. Based on close to 20,000 individual petitions of insolvents submitted to the Bombay High Court during the second half of the nineteenth century, this work maps patterns of income, literacy levels and connections between religion and occupation. The author explores local, colonial and global relationships during a crucial phase of the transformation of Indian economy andsociety.

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