This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Caption title; description based on screen of 2007-12-11.
Originally published by Gutenberg-e: www.gutenberg-e.org.
Summary
"This book explores the historical and cultural processes by which people under colonial and postcolonial rule come to regard themselves as part of a "community," sharing a particular local and panregional ethnic community identity. The focus of this ethnohistorical case study of community formation is a wealthy and controversial migrant business community in Calcutta, the Marwaris."--Preface.
