TY  - GEN
AB  - 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.
AU  - Siddiqi, Asiya,
CN  - Oxford Scholarship Online
CN  - HC438
ET  - First edition.
ID  - 808523
KW  - Bankruptcy
KW  - Women
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199472208.001.0001
N2  - 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.
SN  - 9780199091072
T1  - Bombay's people, 1860-98 :insolvents in the city /
TI  - Bombay's people, 1860-98 :insolvents in the city /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199472208.001.0001
ER  -