Informal and Everyday Markets – Histories of Business and Entrepreneurship in India since the 19th Century

Conference Report by Christina Lubinski The history of business in modern South Asia has traditionally focused on large-scale Indian firms and corporations in an attempt to study the contribution of big capital to the historical development of the sub-continent. At the same time, social history has tended to narrate the worlds of small-scale actors on South Asian markets from a perspective of labor or as regimes of production, especially when concerning artisanal populations. The internationa..