MARC Record from Oregon Libraries

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001 56645871
003 OCoLC
005 20070316051603.0
008 040719s2004 nyu f b 000 0 eng
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090 $aDS432.M28$b.H37 2004
100 1 $aHardgrove, Anne.
245 10 $aCommunity and public culture :$bthe Marwaris in Calcutta, c.1897-1997 /$cAnne Hardgrove.
260 $aNew York ;$aChichester :$bColumbia University Press,$c2004.
300 $axxvi, 323 p. ;$c24 cm.
505 0 $aCommunity and public culture -- Mapping community in Rajasthan and Calcutta -- Merchant houses as spectacles of modernity -- Marwaris and moral economies : from rain the ghee -- Social reform and the women's question in Marwari public life -- Sati worship and Marwari public identity in India.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 291-318).
520 $a"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 panregional ethnic community identity. The focus of this ethnohistorical case study of community formation is a wealthy and controversial migrant business community in Calcutta, the Marwaris."--Pref.
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651 0 $aCalcutta (India)$xSocial conditions.
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