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  • The Emergence of Brand-Name Capitalism in Late Colonial India

    Advertising and the Making of Modern Conjugality

    by Douglas E. Haynes ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives in South Asian History
    This book examines the emergence of professional advertising in western India during the interwar period. It explores the ways in which global manufacturers advanced a 'brand-name capitalism' among the Indian middle class by promoting the sale of global commodities during the 1920s and 1930s, a time when advertising was first introduced in India as a profession and underwent critical ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Rethinking Markets in Modern India

    Embedded Exchange and Contested Jurisdiction

    Edited by Ajay Gandhi, Barbara Harriss-White, Douglas E. Haynes, Sebastian Schwecke ...
    To people operating in India's economy, actually existing markets are remarkably different from how planners and academics conceive them. From the outside, they appear as demarcated arenas of exchange bound by state-imposed rules. As historical and social realities, however, markets are dynamic, adaptative, and ambiguous spaces. This book delves into this intricate context, exploring Indian ... Read more

    $118.89 USD

  • A Global History of Sexual Science, 1880–1960

    Edited by Veronika Fuechtner, Douglas E. Haynes, Ryan M. Jones ...
    Series Book 26 - California World History Library
    Starting in the late nineteenth century, scholars and activists all over the world suddenly began to insist that understandings of sex be based on science. As Japanese and Indian sexologists influenced their German, British, and American counterparts and vice versa, sexuality, modernity, and imaginings of exotified “Others” became intimately linked. The first anthology to provide a worldwide ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Small Town Capitalism in Western India

    Artisans, Merchants, and the Making of the Informal Economy, 1870–1960

    by Douglas E. Haynes ...
    Series Book 20 - Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society
    This book charts the history of artisan production and marketing in the Bombay Presidency from 1870 to 1960. While the textile mills of western India's biggest cities have been the subject of many rich studies, the role of artisan producers located in the region's small towns have been virtually ignored. Based upon extensive archival research as well as numerous interviews with participants in the ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

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    Reinventing Public Services

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  • Public Administration in India

    The Higher Civil Service

    by S.R. Maheshwari ...
    This book is about public administration in India, which is often synonymous with the role and performance of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). The author stresses the indispensability of the civil service in a democratic polity like India and the decisive role it plays in assisting with the social and economic development of the country. He also examines the corruption in the bureaucracy ... Read more

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  • Appropriately Indian

    Gender and Culture in a New Transnational Class

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    Compassionate Responses to Consumerism

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  • Working the Night Shift

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