Towards a history of consumption in South Asia/
edited by Douglas E. Haynes
- New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- x,297p. : ill. ; 23cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
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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Consumption (Economics)--History--India Middle Class--Economic Conditions--India Cost and Standard of Living--History--India