Businessmen and Politics: Rising Nationalism and a Modernising Economy in Bombay, 1918-1933 - Couverture rigide

Gordon, A.D.D.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0908070020 ISBN 13 : 9780908070022

Editeur : Australian National University,Research School of Pacific Studies, Department of Economics, 2024

Synopsis

During the Non-Cooperation and Civil Disobedience movement of the 1920s and 1930s, Bombay came to be known as 'the keep of Gandhism'. Its businessmen were seen as the front-line troops and backroom financiers of the nationalists. But it was principally among merchants and traders that this commitment to Gandhian nationalism was deepest; the great industrialists tended to stand aloof – and sometimes even actively opposed the nationalists. Yet, in terms of the boycott of foreign trade, it was they who apparently had most to gain from the economic doctrines of the Indian National Congress. In quiet times, indeed, the industrialists were capable of switching allegiance and supporting the Congress in its attempt to win independence by constitutional means.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

After graduating from Sydney University in 1968, A.D.D. Gordon read History at Cambridge University. He took an M.A. in 1971, and a Ph.D. in modern South Asian history in 1976 after a year's research in India. He is employed in the Australian public service.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Australian National University,Research School of Pacific Studies, Department of Economics
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0908070020
• ISBN 13: 9780908070022
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 338
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