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Towards a history of consumption in South Asia/ edited by Douglas E. Haynes

Contributor(s): Haynes , Douglas E. edMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010Description: x,297p. : 23cm. illISBN: 9780198063643; 0198063644Subject(s): Consumption (Economics) -- India -- History | Middle Class -- India -- Economic Conditions | Cost and Standard of Living -- India -- HistoryDDC classification: 954

Contents:

Introduction Douglas E. Haynes and Abigail McGowan 1. The Consumption of British Manufiictured Goods in India: A Prologue. 1765-1813 H.V. Bowen 2. Growth of Small-scale Industries and Changes in Consumption Patterns in South India, 1910s-50s Haruka Yanagisawa 3. Consumption History of the Estado da India, 1850-1950 Remy Dias 4. Consumption, Domestic Economy, and the Idea of the 'Middle Class' in Late Colonial Bombay Prashant Kidambi 5. At Home in the World: Cinema and Cultures of the Yoimg in Bombay in the 1920s Kaushik Bhaumik 6. Consuming Families: Negotiating Women's Shopping in Early Twentieth Century Western India Abigail McGowan 7. Creating the Consumer? Advertising, Capitalism, and the Middle Class in Urban Western India, 1914-40 Douglas E. Haynes 8. Honour, Desire, and Fashion: Textile Consumption in Northwest India and Pakistan Michelle Maskiell 9. Of Soaps and Scents: Corporeal Cleanliness in Urban Colonial India Harminder Kaur 10. Consumption and Craftsmanship in India, 1870-1940 Tirthankar Roy

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	954 HAY/T (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P14420

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Introduction
Douglas E. Haynes and Abigail McGowan
1. The Consumption of British Manufiictured Goods in India:
A Prologue. 1765-1813
H.V. Bowen
2. Growth of Small-scale Industries and
Changes in Consumption Patterns in South India, 1910s-50s
Haruka Yanagisawa
3. Consumption History of the Estado da India, 1850-1950
Remy Dias
4. Consumption, Domestic Economy, and the Idea of
the 'Middle Class' in Late Colonial Bombay
Prashant Kidambi
5. At Home in the World: Cinema and Cultures
of the Yoimg in Bombay in the 1920s
Kaushik Bhaumik
6. Consuming Families: Negotiating Women's Shopping
in Early Twentieth Century Western India
Abigail McGowan
7. Creating the Consumer? Advertising, Capitalism, and
the Middle Class in Urban Western India, 1914-40
Douglas E. Haynes
8. Honour, Desire, and Fashion: Textile Consumption
in Northwest India and Pakistan
Michelle Maskiell
9. Of Soaps and Scents: Corporeal Cleanliness in Urban
Colonial India
Harminder Kaur
10. Consumption and Craftsmanship in India, 1870-1940
Tirthankar Roy

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