Useful Friendship: Europeans and Indians in Early Calcutta
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This book describes how friendship or quasi-friendly behaviour underwrote British life and work in Calcutta before and after 1800, even between patrons and clients, and when personal relations were not amicable. Amid the uncertainties as a new town was created, the parameters of proper behaviour were defined by sociability, trust, and reputation. The book explains friendship's role in credit and debt; in town-development, securing contracts, and...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0198099185
ISBN13:9780198099185
Release Date:September 2014
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:336 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.7" x 8.6"
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