This book deals with three main aspects of the history of Indian business: The relationship between business and politics, the position of merchants and businessmen in the economy and society of late colonial India, and how particular merchant networks extended the range of their operations to the entire subcontinent and the wider world.

CLAUDE MARKOVITS is Directeur de Recherche (Senior Research Fellow) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France. His publications includeIndian Business and Nationalist Politics (1985),The Global World of Indian Merchants (2000), andThe Un-Gandhian Gandhi. He editedA History of Modern India 1480-1950 (2002).

Preface PART I: Business and Politics Congress Policy Towards Business in the Pre-Independence Era Indian Business and the Congress Provincial Governments 19371939 Businessmen and the Partition of India PART II: Entrepreneurship and Society Muslim Businessmen in South Asia, c. 19001950 Bombay as a Business Centre in the Colonial Period: A Comparison with Calcutta The Tata Paradox Merchants, Entrepreneurs, and the Middle Classes in Twentieth-Century India PART III: Merchant Networks Merchant Circulation in South Asia (Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries): The Rise of Pan-Indian Merchant Networks Indian Merchant Networks Outside India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Preliminary Survey Epilogue: Returning the Merchant to South Asian History? Index