Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS)

Workshop "Informal and Everyday Markets"

(18. - 20. Juni 2014)

Location Plan

  • Call for Papers "Informal and Everyday Markets: Modern Histories of Indian Business and Entrepreneurship since the Nineteenth Century" (until 15 Feb.2014)

    • Bandyopadhyay, Ritajyoti
  • Autobiography, Archiving and Everyday - The Hawkers' Question in Calcutta

    • Bhagavatula, Suresh
  • Recent Entrepreneurial History of Handloom industry in Andhra Pradesh (1970-2013)

    • Birla, Ritu
  • The Informal, Illicit and Complicit: Speculation, the Futures Contract, and Genealogies of Neoliberal Governmentality

    • George, Sujeet
  • Negotiating multiple languages of trade: Regularizing the salt markets in the Bombay presidency

    • Ghosh, Anwesha
  • The Making of New Market: A Constitutive Paradox

    • Ghosh, Saumyashree
  • The making of the mokam: "Relations of exchange" in railway trading marts, Bengal c.1870-1914

    • Goyal, Yugank
  • Understanding Trade Credit Institutions in Small Businesses: History and Sociology of the Informal Footwear Industry in Agra

    • Harris-White, Barbara
  • 'Local Capitalism' and the Development of the Rice Economy - 1973-2010

    • Jha, Sadan /Thakur, Nishpriha
  • Ethnography of trust and history as circulating commodities in Chauta Bazaar, Surat

    • Lahiri, Koyel
  • The politics of hawking: a reading of the Hawker Sangram Committee, Calcutta

    • Lubinski, Christina
  • On Race and Recruiting Practices in Foreign Firms in India: The Case of German Multinationals' before 1947

    • Mahadevan, Raman
  • Wrangling over the colonial Indian market: the untold story of German commercial presence between the wars

    • Markovits, Claude
  • South Asian business networks and informal markets : some reflexions around an equation

    • Mathew, Nisha
  • Migration, Smuggling and A Transnational Economy in the Making: Dubai's Indian Contexts of Urbanization

    • Norris, Lucy
  • Secondhand clothing markets in India: an anthropological perspective on exchange and the transformation of value

    • Oonk, Gijsbert
  • The Emergence of Indigenous Industrialists in Calcutta, Bombay, and Ahmedabad,1850?1947

    • Parthasarathi, Vibodh
  • The Making of Recorded Music: Business Practices in the early Records Industry, 1900-1908

    • Petrulis, Jason
  • From temple tonsure to woman's wig: Making Indian hair markets in the 1960s

    • Schwecke, Sebastian
  • A 'Tangled Jungle of Disorderly Transactions'? Informality and Trust in Quotidian Finance in Late Colonial and Contemporary Banaras

    • Shankar, Kalyan / Sahni, Rohini
  • From "Black and White" to "Color" and the Grey Areas in Between:The Evolution of Local Markets for Television Sets in an Indian city, 1975-2010

    • Tetzlaff, Stefan
  • Owner-Drivers Surveyed and Reformed: Life-Worlds and Business Activities of a Prominent Social Figure in Interwar India

    • Tschacher, Torsten
  • "Money-making is Their Prime Concern": Markets, Mobility, and Matrimony among South Indian Muslims in Colonial Southeast Asia

    • Valiani, Arafaat
  • Entrepreneurship, Urban Planning and Transnational Migration in Postcolonial Karachi