Caste and capitalism in colonial India : the Nattukottai Chettiars /

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Author / Creator:Rudner, David West
Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, 1994.
Description:p. cm.
Language:English
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1571155
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ISBN:0520072367 (alk. paper)
0520083504 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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505 0 0 |g 1.  |t Introduction.  |t The Nakarattars of Tamil Nadu.  |t Historical Overview.  |t Being a Nakarattar in Colonial India.  |t Nakarattar Studies.  |t Nakarattars and the Anthropological Study of Caste.  |t Outline of the Book --  |g Pt. 1.  |t Concepts.  |g 2.  |t Conceiving Caste.  |t Capitalism and Caste.  |t The Standard View of Caste.  |t Caste as Symbolic Capital in Political Ethnicization.  |t "Where's the Rest of Me?" The Case of the Komatis.  |t Segmentary Structure and Structural Variation.  |t The "Corporacy" of Castes: Kayasths and Nakarattars Compared.  |t Ecologically Qualified Views of Caste.  |t Mercantile Caste Variation: Some South Indian Dimensions.  |t A Closer Look at Merchant-Artisans: The Case of the Kaikkolars.  |t The Merchant-Banker Nakarattars Contrasted.  |t Symbolic Capital and the Cultural Ecology of Caste.  |g 3.  |t The Study of Commerce in Indian Society.  |t Giants on Our Shoulders.  |t Three Stereotypes of the Indian Moneylender.  |t Legal Stereotypes and Historical Myopia.  |t Village Studies of Indian Commerce.  |t Beyond the Village Moneylender.  |t Indian Burghers and Portfolio Capitalists.  |t The Historiographic Gap.  |t The Historiographic Rejection of Caste in Commerce --  |g Pt. 2.  |t Business.  |g 4.  |t The Colonial Expansion.  |t Overview.  |t Seventeenth-Century South India.  |t Cotton, Pearls, Rice, and Salt, 1800-1850.  |t Peshkash, Money Lending, and Repayment, 1800-1850.  |t Litigation and the Emergence of Nakarattar Zamindars, 1850-1900.  |t Nakarattar Commercial Expansion in Southeast Asia, 1870-1930.  |t Ceylon, 1870-1930.  |t Burma, 1870-1930.  |t Malaya in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.  |t A Final Comment on Nakarattar Commercial Expansion.  |g 5.  |t Banker's Trust and the Culture of Banking.  |t Banker's Trust?  |t Nakarattar Interest Rates and Deposit Banking.  |t Hundi Transactions and Other Transfers of Credit between Nakarattars.  |t Accounting.  |t Proprietor's Capital and Deposit Capital from Other Nakarattars.  |g 6.  |t A Collectivist Spirit of Capitalism.  |t Two Spirits of Capitalism.  |t Three Models of Nakarattar Banking Organization.  |t Families and Firms.  |t Pulli and Valavu (The Conjugal Family and the Joint Family).  |t Proprietors and Agents.  |t The Nakarattar Agency.  |t Adathis: The Nakarattar Elite.  |t Nakaravitutis.  |t Nakarattar Panchayats.  |t Collectivism and Capitalism --  |g Pt. 3.  |t Ritual and Kinship.  |g 7.  |t The Magic of Capitalism and the Mercantile Elite.  |t Magical Capitalism.  |t Nakarattar Worship and Trade in Seventeenth-Century Palani.  |t Temples as Political Institutions in the Seventeenth Century.  |t Purity, Protection, Trust, and Mercantile Elites.  |t Worship and Commerce.  |t The Emergence of Provincial Politics.  |t The Creation of "the Public" and the Question of Privilege.  |t The Case of Raja Sir Muthia and the Politics of Madras, 1928-1969.  |t Junctures and Disjunctures in the Culture of Elite Endowment.  |t Economic Power, Elite Endowment, and Political Authority.  |t The Historical Continuity of South Indian Mercantile Elites.  |g 8.  |t Marriage Alliance.  |t Preliminary Definitions: Terms for Kin Groups.  |t Marriage Alliance, Affinal Kindreds, and Tayatis.  |t Vattakais and Territorial Endogamy.  |t Affinal Gifts as Interest-Earning Trusts: An Illustration.  |t The Ritual Construction of Nakarattar Marriage Alliances.  |t Cir.  |t Moi.  |t Murai.  |t Vevu.  |t Summary of Affinal Prestations.  |t Positive Marriage Rules and Virtual Affinity.  |t In-Laws, Murai, and Terminological Marking.  |t The Maternal Uncle, the Wife's Father, and Murai.  |t A Note on Ethnographic Reports of Nakarattar Marriage Rules.  |t Final Comment.  |g 9.  |t Temple Control and Cross-Cut Segmentation in Chettinad.  |t Nakarattar Settlement and Dominance in Chettinad: The Historical Charter.  |t Religious Endowment.  |t Descent and the Temple Cults of Chettinad.  |t Clan Temples and Temple-Clans.  |t Village Temples and Dominant Lineage Segments.  |g 10.  |t Conclusion: Social Structure as Social Investment.  |t Competing for the Past, Investing in the Future.  |t Marriage and Minimization.  |t Merchant and Peasant: Nakarattar and Goundar Political Structure.  |t Hierarchy, Territorial Precedence, and Royal Honors: The Pudukottai Kallars.  |t A Mythic Charter for Nakarattar Values.  |t Ambidexterity in the Nakarattar Varalaru.  |t Cross-Cut Segmentation and Equality.  |t Equality and Elitehood.  |t The Symbolism of Finance.  |t Macro-, Micro-, and Mediate Analysis.  |t Appendix A. Interest Rate Tables --  |t Appendix B. Sample Hundis --  |t Appendix C. Career of Raja Sir Muthia Chettiar --  |t Appendix D. Nakarattar Kinship Terms. 
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