Douglas E Haynes
Biographic Data
| ID | 81786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas E Haynes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas E |
| FAMILY NAME | Haynes |
| SIGNATURE | HAYNES D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 169 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Postscript
Traders and Tinkers
Ishita Pande, Sex, Law and the Politics of Age
Translating transactions
In this Modern Asian Studies book symposium, scholars of South Asia analyse the political, ethical, and epistemic aspects of market life. They build on the 2020 Cambridge volume, Rethinking Markets in Modern India: Embedded Exchange and Contested Jurisdiction, edited by Ajay Gandhi, Barbara Harriss-White, Douglas Haynes, and Sebastian Schwecke. This interdisciplinary conversation approaches transactional realms from the disciplines of history, an…
Rethinking Markets in Modern India
To people operating in India's economy, actually existing markets are remarkably different from how planners and academics conceive them. From the outside, they appear as demarcated arenas of exchange bound by state-imposed rules. As historical and social realities, however, markets are dynamic, adaptative, and ambiguous spaces. This book delves into this intricate context, exploring Indian markets through the competition and collaboration of tho…
Vernacular Capitalism, Advertising, and the Bazaar in Early Twentieth-Century Western India
This chapter examines the way small manufacturing firms in western India began to use advertisement in the print media to develop markets for their goods during the early twentieth century. The chapter suggests that advertising gave small producers an opportunity to create the cultural meanings of commodities far away from the point of production. In many cases, they sought to usurp the role of local mercantile actors in fashioning product meanin…
Rethinking Markets in Modern India
Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India
Reviewed by: Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India: Family, Market and Homoeopathy by Shinjini Das Douglas E. Haynes Shinjini Das. Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India: Family, Market and Homoeopathy. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2019. xiv + 292 pp. $112.00 (978-1-108-42062-4). During the past fifteen years, the history of medicine in South Asia has become a particularly dynamic field of scholarship, moving beyond the study of "Western" and …
Gandhi, Brahmacharya and Global Sexual Science, 1919–38
This essay explores the evolution of Gandhi’s philosophy of brahmacharya (celibacy) after World War I. I argue here that Gandhi broadened his understanding of brahmacharya after he assumed leadership of the nationalist movement, rendering it into a concept that was applicable to the wider population of India rather than just to himself and a set of especially disciplined activists. A major reason for this development was Gandhi’s concern with def…
Bombay’s European Community During the Interwar Period
This essay explores the ways Europeans in interwar Bombay sustained their cultural identity as a distinct ethnic group despite the impermanent character of their residence in the city, their dispersed settlement patterns over much of southern Bombay, and the decline of their political dominance in the context of Indian nationalism. The essay particularly points to the creation of an intense sociality centered around social clubs, parties, and jaz…
A Global History of Sexual Science, 1880–1960
Starting in the late nineteenth century, scholars and activists all over the world suddenly began to insist that understandings of sex be based on science. As Japanese and Indian sexologists influenced their German, British, and American counterparts and vice versa, sexuality, modernity, and imaginings of exotified “Others” became intimately linked. The first anthology to provide a worldwide perspective on the birth and development of the field, …
Global History of Sexual Science, 1880-1960
Starting in the late nineteenth century, scholars and activists all over the world suddenly began to insist that understandings of sex be based on science. As Japanese and Indian sexologists influenced their German, British, and American counterparts and vice versa, sexuality, modernity, and imaginings of exotified “Others” became intimately linked. The first anthology to provide a worldwide perspective on the birth and development of the field, …
Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Anxieties
This article examines letters written by young men to the Marathi-language journal Samaj Swasthya and its editor, R. D. Karve, a major advocate of birth control and sex education in western India. The letters, and Karve's responses to them, constituted perhaps the earliest sex-advice column in Indian print media. We argue here that the correspondence provides a unique vehicle for understanding the forms of sexual knowledge held by middle-class ma…
Advertising and the History of South Asia, 1880–1950
The subject of advertising has not been a major field of investigation among historians of South Asia, but recently, a number of scholars have begun to incorporate treatment of the topic into their discussion of a variety of subjects. This article examines the ways in which recent scholars working in a range of fields – including business history, the history of global capitalism, the history of medicine, the history of sexuality, and the history…
Rethinking the Twentieth-Century History of Mumbai
This review examines three major books on the history of Bombay. Historians of the city have tended to focus primarily on the period before 1930; this tendency has seriously limited our understanding of the dramatic transformations that have taken place in Bombay over the course of the twentieth century. Each of the studies reviewed here devotes considerable attention to developments since the 1920s. Collectively these works make a significant co…
The Making of the Hyper-Industrial City in Western India
This essay explores the rapid expansion of small handloom centres in Western India between 1930 and 1970. It attributes the transformation of these places into larger cities to the role of local weaver-capitalists, who developed new markets for local textiles and introduced significant technological innovations into the industry, and who forged strategies for combatting the growth of labour resistance. The essay also highlights the role of the la…
Beyond the Colonial City
Small Town Capitalism in Western India
This book charts the history of artisan production and marketing in the Bombay Presidency from 1870 to 1960. While the textile mills of western India's biggest cities have been the subject of many rich studies, the role of artisan producers located in the region's small towns have been virtually ignored. Based upon extensive archival research as well as numerous interviews with participants in the handloom and powerloom industries, this book expl…
Small Town Capitalism in Western India
Selling Masculinity
This essay discusses advertising for sex tonics in Western Indian newspapers between 1900 and 1945. It specifically focuses on the emergence of a new paradigm of tonic advertisement—the marital happiness advertisment—after 1935. Arguing that tonic advertisers always sought to develop appeals grounded in prevously circulating conceptions of sexuality and the body, it first examines pre-1935 forms of advertisement submitted by local businesses and …
Peasant Pasts
Reviewed by: Peasant Pasts: History and Memory in Western India Douglas E. Haynes Peasant Pasts: History and Memory in Western India. By Vinayak Chaturvedi (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2007) Peasant movements once stood at the center of the historiography of colonial South Asia (and of many other parts of Asia and Africa) during the 1970s and 1980s. During the last twenty years, however, this area of study ha…
The Labour Process in the Bombay Handloom Industry, 1880-1940
Analyses of capital-labour relations in Indian industry during the colonial period have generally been confined to studies of large-scale units. This essay turns to an examination of the organization of the workplace among handloom producers in the Bombay Presidency during the period between 1880 and 1940. While recognizing the importance of contradictions between weaving families and various kinds of capitalists, the essay eschews any straightfo…
The Colonial Transition
The seven papers in this special issue focus primarily on the development of British colonial rule between the 1780s and the 1840s. Over the course of these decades, the East India Company extended and consolidated its political and military control throughout much of the Indian subcontinent. Many of the crucial developments in the formation of the colonial state occurred during this period. These include the conquest of Mysore and the defeat of …
Artisan Cloth-Producers and the Emergence of Powerloom Manufacture in Western India 1920-1950
ARTISAN CLOTH-PRODUCERS AND THE EMERGENCE OF POWERLOOM MANUFACTURE IN WESTERN INDIA 1920–1950 Get access Douglas E. Haynes Douglas E. Haynes Dartmouth CollegeHanover,NH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 172, Issue 1, August 2001, Pages 170–198, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/172.1.170 Published: 01 August 2001
Market formation in Khandesh, c. 1820-1930
Rhetoric and Ritual in Colonial India
From Tribute to Philanthropy
sDuring the nineteenth century, South Asian businessmen began to engage in modern forms of philanthropy. Focusing on the western Indian city of Surat, this essay explores the emergence of philanthropic activity within the larger "portfolios" of gift giving held by indigenous merchants from roughly 1600 to 1924. Throughout this period, Hindu and Jain commercial magnates employed gifts as means both of building up their reputations (ābrū) within hi…
Conceiving mobility
Beyond the Colonial City
Just like a family? Recalling the relations of production in the textile industries of Surat and Bhiwandi, 1940-60
This paper explores discourses about industry by looking at the representations of the past formulated by owners, workers and trade union leaders in the cities of surat and Bhiwandi. Drawing upon literature on social memory as well as upon Scott's discussion of 'weapons of the weak', it argues that current circumstances of different social groupings in these cities and their views of prospects for change in the future have a profound effect on th…
Imperial Ritual in a Local Setting
With the publication of Bernard Cohn's seminal article in theInvention of Tradition, the study of ritual in colonial India has acquired a new significance and a new respectability for South Asianists, particularly those inclined to 'ethnohistorical' approaches. Recently a number of essays on imperial ceremony have begun to appear with very profitable results. But those working on this subject have generally confined themselves to examining one of…
Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Anxieties
This article examines letters written by young men to the Marathi-language journal Samaj Swasthya and its editor, R. D. Karve, a major advocate of birth control and sex education in western India. The letters, and Karve's responses to them, constituted perhaps the earliest sex-advice column in Indian print media. We argue here that the correspondence provides a unique vehicle for understanding the forms of sexual knowledge held by middle-class ma…
The Colonial Transition
The seven papers in this special issue focus primarily on the development of British colonial rule between the 1780s and the 1840s. Over the course of these decades, the East India Company extended and consolidated its political and military control throughout much of the Indian subcontinent. Many of the crucial developments in the formation of the colonial state occurred during this period. These include the conquest of Mysore and the defeat of …
Artisan Cloth-Producers and the Emergence of Powerloom Manufacture in Western India 1920-1950
ARTISAN CLOTH-PRODUCERS AND THE EMERGENCE OF POWERLOOM MANUFACTURE IN WESTERN INDIA 1920–1950 Get access Douglas E. Haynes Douglas E. Haynes Dartmouth CollegeHanover,NH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 172, Issue 1, August 2001, Pages 170–198, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/172.1.170 Published: 01 August 2001
The Labour Process in the Bombay Handloom Industry, 1880-1940
Analyses of capital-labour relations in Indian industry during the colonial period have generally been confined to studies of large-scale units. This essay turns to an examination of the organization of the workplace among handloom producers in the Bombay Presidency during the period between 1880 and 1940. While recognizing the importance of contradictions between weaving families and various kinds of capitalists, the essay eschews any straightfo…
Market formation in Khandesh, c. 1820-1930
The dynamics of continuity in Indian domestic industry
Advertising and the History of South Asia, 1880–1950
The subject of advertising has not been a major field of investigation among historians of South Asia, but recently, a number of scholars have begun to incorporate treatment of the topic into their discussion of a variety of subjects. This article examines the ways in which recent scholars working in a range of fields – including business history, the history of global capitalism, the history of medicine, the history of sexuality, and the history…
Sociology
The dynamics of continuity in Indian domestic industry
From Tribute to Philanthropy
sDuring the nineteenth century, South Asian businessmen began to engage in modern forms of philanthropy. Focusing on the western Indian city of Surat, this essay explores the emergence of philanthropic activity within the larger "portfolios" of gift giving held by indigenous merchants from roughly 1600 to 1924. Throughout this period, Hindu and Jain commercial magnates employed gifts as means both of building up their reputations (ābrū) within hi…
The Artisans of Banaras
Nita Kumar offers an evocative and sensitive portrayal of rarely explored aspects of Hindu culture through her analysis of the way leisure time is used by Hindu and Muslim artisans of Banaras--the weavers, metalworkers, and woodworkers. Music, festivals, the place of physical culture, and the importance of going the outer side all are examined as Kumar looks at changes that have occurred in leisure-time activities over the last century. The discu…
Imperial Ritual in a Local Setting
With the publication of Bernard Cohn's seminal article in theInvention of Tradition, the study of ritual in colonial India has acquired a new significance and a new respectability for South Asianists, particularly those inclined to 'ethnohistorical' approaches. Recently a number of essays on imperial ceremony have begun to appear with very profitable results. But those working on this subject have generally confined themselves to examining one of…
Rhetoric and Ritual in Colonial India
The Political Economy of Unorganised Industry
Introduction PART ONE: FORMS AND PHASES OF GROWTH IN INDIAN INDUSTRY Labour Process Theory and Practice The Path of Indian Capitalist Growth Nature and Structure The Growth of Industrial Capital in Punjab PART TWO: PRODUCTION STRUCTURE AND THE LABOUR PROCESS Hosiery From Natural Economy to Export Decentralised Production, Centralised Control Working Class-in-the Making Trade Unions Resisting the Onslaught of Capital Labour Process Debate The Hosi…
European Merchant Capital and the Indian Economy
Market formation in Khandesh, c. 1820-1930
Conceiving mobility
The New Cambridge History of India
Just like a family? Recalling the relations of production in the textile industries of Surat and Bhiwandi, 1940-60
This paper explores discourses about industry by looking at the representations of the past formulated by owners, workers and trade union leaders in the cities of surat and Bhiwandi. Drawing upon literature on social memory as well as upon Scott's discussion of 'weapons of the weak', it argues that current circumstances of different social groupings in these cities and their views of prospects for change in the future have a profound effect on th…
Sumathi Ramaswamy, Passions of the Tongue
In this book, Sumathi Ramaswamy explores how the Tamil language became the focus of intense commitments in twentieth-century South India. Following recent calls among South Asian scholars to find alternatives to narratives derived from western experience, she rejects language nationalism as an appropriate conceptual tool for her study, both because the term implies a universal European standard by which language feeling is to be measured and beca…
Artisan Cloth-Producers and the Emergence of Powerloom Manufacture in Western India 1920-1950
ARTISAN CLOTH-PRODUCERS AND THE EMERGENCE OF POWERLOOM MANUFACTURE IN WESTERN INDIA 1920–1950 Get access Douglas E. Haynes Douglas E. Haynes Dartmouth CollegeHanover,NH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 172, Issue 1, August 2001, Pages 170–198, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/172.1.170 Published: 01 August 2001
The Colonial Transition
The seven papers in this special issue focus primarily on the development of British colonial rule between the 1780s and the 1840s. Over the course of these decades, the East India Company extended and consolidated its political and military control throughout much of the Indian subcontinent. Many of the crucial developments in the formation of the colonial state occurred during this period. These include the conquest of Mysore and the defeat of …
Peasant Pasts
Reviewed by: Peasant Pasts: History and Memory in Western India Douglas E. Haynes Peasant Pasts: History and Memory in Western India. By Vinayak Chaturvedi (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2007) Peasant movements once stood at the center of the historiography of colonial South Asia (and of many other parts of Asia and Africa) during the 1970s and 1980s. During the last twenty years, however, this area of study ha…
The Labour Process in the Bombay Handloom Industry, 1880-1940
Analyses of capital-labour relations in Indian industry during the colonial period have generally been confined to studies of large-scale units. This essay turns to an examination of the organization of the workplace among handloom producers in the Bombay Presidency during the period between 1880 and 1940. While recognizing the importance of contradictions between weaving families and various kinds of capitalists, the essay eschews any straightfo…
Small Town Capitalism in Western India
This book charts the history of artisan production and marketing in the Bombay Presidency from 1870 to 1960. While the textile mills of western India's biggest cities have been the subject of many rich studies, the role of artisan producers located in the region's small towns have been virtually ignored. Based upon extensive archival research as well as numerous interviews with participants in the handloom and powerloom industries, this book expl…
Small Town Capitalism in Western India
Selling Masculinity
This essay discusses advertising for sex tonics in Western Indian newspapers between 1900 and 1945. It specifically focuses on the emergence of a new paradigm of tonic advertisement—the marital happiness advertisment—after 1935. Arguing that tonic advertisers always sought to develop appeals grounded in prevously circulating conceptions of sexuality and the body, it first examines pre-1935 forms of advertisement submitted by local businesses and …
The Making of the Hyper-Industrial City in Western India
This essay explores the rapid expansion of small handloom centres in Western India between 1930 and 1970. It attributes the transformation of these places into larger cities to the role of local weaver-capitalists, who developed new markets for local textiles and introduced significant technological innovations into the industry, and who forged strategies for combatting the growth of labour resistance. The essay also highlights the role of the la…
Beyond the Colonial City
Rethinking the Twentieth-Century History of Mumbai
This review examines three major books on the history of Bombay. Historians of the city have tended to focus primarily on the period before 1930; this tendency has seriously limited our understanding of the dramatic transformations that have taken place in Bombay over the course of the twentieth century. Each of the studies reviewed here devotes considerable attention to developments since the 1920s. Collectively these works make a significant co…
Advertising and the History of South Asia, 1880–1950
The subject of advertising has not been a major field of investigation among historians of South Asia, but recently, a number of scholars have begun to incorporate treatment of the topic into their discussion of a variety of subjects. This article examines the ways in which recent scholars working in a range of fields – including business history, the history of global capitalism, the history of medicine, the history of sexuality, and the history…
Global History of Sexual Science, 1880-1960
Starting in the late nineteenth century, scholars and activists all over the world suddenly began to insist that understandings of sex be based on science. As Japanese and Indian sexologists influenced their German, British, and American counterparts and vice versa, sexuality, modernity, and imaginings of exotified “Others” became intimately linked. The first anthology to provide a worldwide perspective on the birth and development of the field, …
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