Mircea Raianu
Biographic Data
| ID | 368716 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mircea Raianu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mircea |
| FAMILY NAME | Raianu |
| SIGNATURE | RAIANU M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-9112-1127 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From Swadeshi to Hindutva
Being Young, Becoming Political
This article discusses the relationship between political subjectivity and urban space in three novels written in the immediate aftermath of the Partition of India: Qurratulain Hyder’s My Temples, Too, Mumtaz Shah Nawaz’s The Heart Divided and Yashpal’s This Is Not That Dawn. Despite extensive thematic and structural similarities, these early Partition novels have never been considered together and through a historical lens. Each narrative featur…
Trade, Finance, and Industry in the Development of Indian Capitalism
This article rethinks the relationship between trade and industry in the development of Indian capitalism, focusing on Tata, pioneers in textile and steel production. It shows how two little-known affiliated trading companies, R.D. Tata & Co. in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Kobe, and Tata Limited in London, played a crucial intermediary role in securing financing and market access for the parent firm in Bombay while simultaneously increasing its expo…
The Incorporation of India
This dissertation examines how and why one single corporation, Tata, acquired exceptional influence on economic and political life in modern India. It does so by charting the expansion of Tata from one of many merchant families, making their fortunes in the cotton and opium trades across the Indian Ocean in the mid-nineteenth century, to the commanding heights of the Indian national economy, with diverse interests in steel, hydroelectricity, chem…
A mass of anomalies
This article examines the emergence of Jamshedpur, site of India's first steel plant and privately governed company town, as part of an unprecedented large-scale extraction of mineral resources at the turn of the twentieth century for the purpose of industrial development. It traces the protracted acquisition of land and dispossession of mainlyadivasi(tribal) cultivators by the Tata Iron and Steel Company (TISCO) from ca. 1900 to 1930. The compan…
A mass of anomalies
This article examines the emergence of Jamshedpur, site of India's first steel plant and privately governed company town, as part of an unprecedented large-scale extraction of mineral resources at the turn of the twentieth century for the purpose of industrial development. It traces the protracted acquisition of land and dispossession of mainlyadivasi(tribal) cultivators by the Tata Iron and Steel Company (TISCO) from ca. 1900 to 1930. The compan…
The Incorporation of India
This dissertation examines how and why one single corporation, Tata, acquired exceptional influence on economic and political life in modern India. It does so by charting the expansion of Tata from one of many merchant families, making their fortunes in the cotton and opium trades across the Indian Ocean in the mid-nineteenth century, to the commanding heights of the Indian national economy, with diverse interests in steel, hydroelectricity, chem…
From Swadeshi to Hindutva
Trade, Finance, and Industry in the Development of Indian Capitalism
This article rethinks the relationship between trade and industry in the development of Indian capitalism, focusing on Tata, pioneers in textile and steel production. It shows how two little-known affiliated trading companies, R.D. Tata & Co. in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Kobe, and Tata Limited in London, played a crucial intermediary role in securing financing and market access for the parent firm in Bombay while simultaneously increasing its expo…
The Incorporation of India
This dissertation examines how and why one single corporation, Tata, acquired exceptional influence on economic and political life in modern India. It does so by charting the expansion of Tata from one of many merchant families, making their fortunes in the cotton and opium trades across the Indian Ocean in the mid-nineteenth century, to the commanding heights of the Indian national economy, with diverse interests in steel, hydroelectricity, chem…
A mass of anomalies
This article examines the emergence of Jamshedpur, site of India's first steel plant and privately governed company town, as part of an unprecedented large-scale extraction of mineral resources at the turn of the twentieth century for the purpose of industrial development. It traces the protracted acquisition of land and dispossession of mainlyadivasi(tribal) cultivators by the Tata Iron and Steel Company (TISCO) from ca. 1900 to 1930. The compan…
Trade, Finance, and Industry in the Development of Indian Capitalism
This article rethinks the relationship between trade and industry in the development of Indian capitalism, focusing on Tata, pioneers in textile and steel production. It shows how two little-known affiliated trading companies, R.D. Tata & Co. in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Kobe, and Tata Limited in London, played a crucial intermediary role in securing financing and market access for the parent firm in Bombay while simultaneously increasing its expo…
Being Young, Becoming Political
This article discusses the relationship between political subjectivity and urban space in three novels written in the immediate aftermath of the Partition of India: Qurratulain Hyder’s My Temples, Too, Mumtaz Shah Nawaz’s The Heart Divided and Yashpal’s This Is Not That Dawn. Despite extensive thematic and structural similarities, these early Partition novels have never been considered together and through a historical lens. Each narrative featur…
From Swadeshi to Hindutva
Political science (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Economy (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Indian Economic and Social Development (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works)