Business Conduct in Late Colonial India: European Business in Kanpur 1900-1939

Economic historians have tended to recognise an almost unfractured racial solidarity that prevailed among the European business class in colonial India, not only locally within the country but also with the "white" colonial government and the manufacturers in Britain. This almost unexcepti...

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Published in:Economic and political weekly 2006-03, Vol.41 (10), p.904-911
Main Authors: Manali Chakrabarti, Biswajit Chatterjee
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Textile industry
World wars
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