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Author Siddiqi, Asiya

Title Bombay's people, 1860-98 : insolvents in the city / Asiya Siddiqi
Edition First edition
Published New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Summary Fluctuations in the global price of cotton had a cataclysmic effect on the people of Bombay. Based on close to 20,000 individual petitions of insolvents submitted to the Bombay High Court during the second half of the nineteenth century, this work maps patterns of income, literacy levels and connections between religion and occupation. The author explores local, colonial and global relationships during a crucial phase of the transformation of Indian economy and society.-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Bankruptcy -- India -- Mumbai -- History -- 20th century
Women -- India -- Mumbai -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Bankruptcy.
Economic history.
Social conditions.
Women -- Social conditions.
SUBJECT Mumbai (India) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
Mumbai (India) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Subject India -- Mumbai.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199091072
0199091072