Martin, Marina2016-02-122015-02Marina 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:10.1080/09584935.2014.1000825.0958-4935 (print)1469-364X (online)10.1080/09584935.2014.1000825http://hdl.handle.net/2263/51343This 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.en© 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.HundiHawalaLawEconomic historyMerchant creditHumanities articles SDG-08SDG-08: Decent work and economic growthPostprint Article