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Project codification: legal legacies of the British Raj on the Indian mercantile credit institution hundi.
- Source :
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Contemporary South Asia . Mar2015, Vol. 23 Issue 1, p67-84. 18p. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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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 post-independence history of hundi as means of understanding the wider political, legislative and economic dynamics of colonial state formation and the legacies of legislation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09584935
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Contemporary South Asia
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 102121724
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2014.1000825