Partner in Empire : Dwarkanath Tagore and the Age of Enterprise in Eastern India / Blair B. Kling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kling, Blair B., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tagore, Dwarkanath, 1794-1846.

Tagore, Dwarkanath.

Businesspeople--India--Bengal--Biography.

Businesspeople.

Entrepreneurship.

Bengal (India)--Economic conditions.

Bengal (India).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 p.) : 1 frontisp.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1976]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter I. The home and the world

Chapter II. Zamindar, Dewan, and Banian

Chapter III. Specter on the Ganges

Chapter IV. Carr, Tagore and company

Chapter V. Raniganj

Chapter VI. Tea, salt and tugboats

Chapter VII. Prince Dwarkanath at court

Chapter VIII. The prince at bay

Chapter IX. The fall of the union bank

Chapter X. The legacy

Conclusion

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520322356

0520322355

OCLC:

1149396051