Le capitalisme lignager assigné aujourd'hui: les marchands kutchi lohana du Maharashtra (INDE)

At the turn of Independence, many Kutchi Lohana merchants have settled in the actual Indian State of Maharashtra (in Bombay, Mulund, Nasik and particularly in Puna), where they have woven networks of "firms or compagnies", most of them dealing in gunny bags. While competing with each other...

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Published in:Annales : histoire, sciences sociales (French ed.) sciences sociales (French ed.), 1992-10, Vol.47 (4/5), p.865-888
Main Author: Lachaier, Pierre
Format: Article
Language:fre
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Les Réseaux
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Summary:At the turn of Independence, many Kutchi Lohana merchants have settled in the actual Indian State of Maharashtra (in Bombay, Mulund, Nasik and particularly in Puna), where they have woven networks of "firms or compagnies", most of them dealing in gunny bags. While competing with each other in business, Kutchi Lohana recognize themselves as members of an exclusive endogamous kin group (a "jati"), subdivided in exogamous lineages issued from common divine ancestors. Field surveys results have been cross-checked with data obtained from the analysis of the Kutchi Lohana advertising and from their own "jati" members census. This allowed to apprehend how segmentable "Lineage Firms" operate, and how a capitalistic sector of activities could develop until recently within the Indian caste society without subverting it.
ISSN:0395-2649
1953-8146
DOI:10.3406/ahess.1992.279083