dc.contributor.author |
Martin, Marina
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dc.date.accessioned |
2016-02-12T09:42:39Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2015-02 |
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dc.description.abstract |
This discussion contributes to the history of the colonial rule of law that governed
market practice in India using the South Asian indigenous credit institution known as
hundi. A centuries-old artery of credit for Indian merchant networks, and a living
institution that has largely been driven underground by twenty-first-century laws,
hundi provides a window into the dynamics of colonial law from the commercial and
financial legislation of the 1880s to the final attempt to codify hundi in the 1960s and
1970s in a bid to bridge the growing disconnect between the Indian indigenous
banking sector and modern banking. I chart the British colonial and postindependence
history of hundi as means of understanding the wider political,
legislative and economic dynamics of colonial state formation and the legacies of
legislation. |
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dc.description.embargo |
2016-08-31 |
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dc.description.librarian |
hb2015 |
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dc.description.uri |
http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ccsa20 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Marina Martin (2015) Project codification: legal legacies of the British Raj on the Indian mercantile credit institution hundi , Contemporary South Asia, 23:1, 67-84, DOI:10.1080/09584935.2014.1000825. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0958-4935 (print) |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1469-364X (online) |
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dc.identifier.other |
10.1080/09584935.2014.1000825 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/51343 |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.publisher |
Taylor and Francis |
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dc.rights |
© 2015 Taylor & Francis. This is an electronic version of an article published in Contemporary South Asia, vol. 23, no.1, pp.67-84, 2015. doi :10.1080/09584935.2014.1000825. Contemporary South Asia is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ccsa20. |
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dc.subject |
Hundi |
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dc.subject |
Hawala |
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dc.subject |
Law |
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dc.subject |
Economic history |
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dc.subject |
Merchant credit |
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dc.title |
Project codification : legal legacies of the British Raj on the Indian mercantile credit institution hundi |
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dc.type |
Postprint Article |
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