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020			_a9780199486687
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100			_aBagchi, Amiya
245			_aMerchants and Colonialism
260			_bOxford University Press _aUSA _c2019
300			_a160, pp
504			_aInclude Index
520			_aMerchants and Colonialism is part of the Occasional Papers series circulated by the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata. Amiya Bagchi provides a historiographic account of the traditional role of merchants in pre colonial India and identifies how these roles were different from the role of the capitalist in post-colonial India. In general, the behaviour of merchants in precapitalist societies was, according to Bagchi, widely different from that of capitalists in developed capitalist societies. In developed capitalist societies, capitalists, generally with state support, played a very important part in modifying techniques of production and seeking ways of expanding their markets. By contrast, the pace of modification of techniques of production was slower in precapitalist societies and owners of capital did not play a significant role in such modification.
650			_aMerchants _vColonialism _vIndustrial policy
700			_aChaudhuri, Rosinka
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