Real abstractions
Markets, moralities, and social segmentation in modern India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3667164 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T B Hansen (0000-0003-3090-4185, Stanford University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1684-1689 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x23000045 |
| OpenAlex | W4380788807 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
This introduction begins with a brief overview of the three major factors shaping economic life and exchange in India, as laid out by contributions in the edited volume Rethinking Markets in Modern India: embedded exchange, contested jurisdiction, and pliable markets. The overarching logic of all the contributions is that markets in India must be understood as path dependent, that is, expressing a historical trajectory and specific, and changing, political and moral regimes. The remainder of this introduction discusses the origins of the distinction between 'economy' and 'culture' in the nationalist critiques of empire and how these critiques have led to a widespread moral ambivalence vis-à-vis the commercialization of everyday life in India that persists today across the political spectrum
Ambivalence · Commercialization · Everyday life · Moral economy · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Indian Economic and Social Development · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Social Psychology
Producing India
Intellectual and Manual Labour
Commodities must be controlled’
Stages of Capital
The Place of the “Cooperative” in the Agrarian History of India, c. 1900–1970
A Tangled Jungle of Disorderly Transactions? The production of a monetary outside in a north Indian town
Transition from Indian to British Indian Systems of Money and Banking 1800-1850
The Passions and the Interests
Money and the Morality of Exchange
Colonialism, Nationalism, and Colonialized Women
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |