Towards a history of consumption in South Asia/ edited by Douglas E. Haynes
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010Description: x,297p. : 23cm. illISBN: 9780198063643; 0198063644Subject(s): Consumption (Economics) -- India -- History | Middle Class -- India -- Economic Conditions | Cost and Standard of Living -- India -- HistoryDDC classification: 954Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 954 HAY/T (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P14420 |
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction
Douglas E. Haynes and Abigail McGowan
1. The Consumption of British Manufiictured Goods in India:
A Prologue. 1765-1813
H.V. Bowen
2. Growth of Small-scale Industries and
Changes in Consumption Patterns in South India, 1910s-50s
Haruka Yanagisawa
3. Consumption History of the Estado da India, 1850-1950
Remy Dias
4. Consumption, Domestic Economy, and the Idea of
the 'Middle Class' in Late Colonial Bombay
Prashant Kidambi
5. At Home in the World: Cinema and Cultures
of the Yoimg in Bombay in the 1920s
Kaushik Bhaumik
6. Consuming Families: Negotiating Women's Shopping
in Early Twentieth Century Western India
Abigail McGowan
7. Creating the Consumer? Advertising, Capitalism, and
the Middle Class in Urban Western India, 1914-40
Douglas E. Haynes
8. Honour, Desire, and Fashion: Textile Consumption
in Northwest India and Pakistan
Michelle Maskiell
9. Of Soaps and Scents: Corporeal Cleanliness in Urban
Colonial India
Harminder Kaur
10. Consumption and Craftsmanship in India, 1870-1940
Tirthankar Roy
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