Tagung "Informal and Everyday Markets. Histories of Business and Entrepeneurship in India since the 19th century" in Göttingen vom 18. bis 20. Juni 2014
In June 1014, scholars from nine countries met in Göttingen to discuss how informal and everyday markets were constituted in India's economic history.
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From the left to the right: Ingo Köhler (Göttingen), Sadan Jha (Surat), Nishpriha Thakur (Surat), Jan Logemann (Göttingen).
Chair: Jan Logemann, Göttingen
Ritu Birla (Toronto): The Informal, Illicit and Complicit: Speculation, the Futures Contract, and Genealogies of Neoliberal Governmentality
Sadan Jha and Nishpriha Thakur (Surat): Ethnography of Trust and History as Circulating Commodities in Chauta Bazar, Surat
Sebastian Schwecke (Göttingen): A "Tangled Jungle of Disorderly Transactions"? Informality and Trust in Quotidian Finance in Late Colonial and Present-day Banaras
Ritu Birla (Toronto): The Informal, Illicit and Complicit: Speculation, the Futures Contract, and Genealogies of Neoliberal Governmentality
Sadan Jha and Nishpriha Thakur (Surat): Ethnography of Trust and History as Circulating Commodities in Chauta Bazar, Surat
Sebastian Schwecke (Göttingen): A "Tangled Jungle of Disorderly Transactions"? Informality and Trust in Quotidian Finance in Late Colonial and Present-day Banaras
From the left to the right: Claude Markovits (Paris), Ravi Ahuja (Göttingen), Sebastian Schwecke (Göttingen).
The Audience in the Paulinerkirche.
Chair: Ravi Ahuja, Göttingen
Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay (Calcutta): Paving the Informal: The Archives of Street Vending in Postcolonial Calcutta
Sujeet George (Calcutta): Negotiating Multiple Languages of Trade: Regularizing the Salt Markets in the Bombay Presidency
Koyel Lahiri (New Delhi): The Politics of Hawking: A Reading of the Hawker Sangram Committee, Calcutta
Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay (Calcutta): Paving the Informal: The Archives of Street Vending in Postcolonial Calcutta
Sujeet George (Calcutta): Negotiating Multiple Languages of Trade: Regularizing the Salt Markets in the Bombay Presidency
Koyel Lahiri (New Delhi): The Politics of Hawking: A Reading of the Hawker Sangram Committee, Calcutta
Chair: Christina Lubinski, Kopenhagen
Saumyashree Ghosh (Calcutta): The Making of the mokam: Relations of Exchange in Railway Trading Marts, Bengal c.1870-1914
Anwesha Ghosh (Toronto): The Making of New Market: A Constitutive Paradox
Lucy Norris (Berlin): Secondhand Clothing Markets in India: An Anthropological Perspective on Exchange and the Transformation of Value
Saumyashree Ghosh (Calcutta): The Making of the mokam: Relations of Exchange in Railway Trading Marts, Bengal c.1870-1914
Anwesha Ghosh (Toronto): The Making of New Market: A Constitutive Paradox
Lucy Norris (Berlin): Secondhand Clothing Markets in India: An Anthropological Perspective on Exchange and the Transformation of Value
Chair: Sebastian Schwecke, Göttingen
Suresh Bhagavatula (Bangalore): Recent Entrepreneurial History of Handloom Industry in Andhra Pradesh (1970-2013)
Yugank Goyal (Rotterdam): Understanding Trade Credit Institutions in Small Businesses: History and Sociology of the Informal Footwear Industry in Agra
Stefan Tetzlaff (Göttingen): Owner-Drivers Surveyed and Reformed: Life-Worlds and Business Activities of a Prominent Social Figure in Interwar India
Suresh Bhagavatula (Bangalore): Recent Entrepreneurial History of Handloom Industry in Andhra Pradesh (1970-2013)
Yugank Goyal (Rotterdam): Understanding Trade Credit Institutions in Small Businesses: History and Sociology of the Informal Footwear Industry in Agra
Stefan Tetzlaff (Göttingen): Owner-Drivers Surveyed and Reformed: Life-Worlds and Business Activities of a Prominent Social Figure in Interwar India
Chair: Joachim Ahrens, Göttingen
Torsten Tschacher (Göttingen): Money-Making is Their Prime Concern: Markets, Mobility, and Matrimony among South Indian Muslims in Colonial Southeast Asia
Nisha Mary Mathew (Johannesburg): Migration, Smuggling and a Transnational Economy in the Making. Dubai's Indian Contexts of Urbanization
Torsten Tschacher (Göttingen): Money-Making is Their Prime Concern: Markets, Mobility, and Matrimony among South Indian Muslims in Colonial Southeast Asia
Nisha Mary Mathew (Johannesburg): Migration, Smuggling and a Transnational Economy in the Making. Dubai's Indian Contexts of Urbanization
Chair: Ingo Köhler, Göttingen
V. Kalyan Shankar and Prof. Rohini Sahni (Pune): From "Black and White" To "Color" and the Grey Areas in Between: The Evolution of Local Markets for Television Sets in an Indian City, 1975-2010
Jason Petrulis (New York): From Temple Tonsure to Woman's Wig: Making Indian Hair Markets in the 1960s
V. Kalyan Shankar and Prof. Rohini Sahni (Pune): From "Black and White" To "Color" and the Grey Areas in Between: The Evolution of Local Markets for Television Sets in an Indian City, 1975-2010
Jason Petrulis (New York): From Temple Tonsure to Woman's Wig: Making Indian Hair Markets in the 1960s
Chair: Douglas Haynes, Dartmouth
Christina Lubinski (Copenhagen): On Race and Recruiting Practices in Foreign Firms in India: The Case of German Multinationals before 1947
Raman Mahadevan (Chennai): Wrangling over the Colonial Indian Market: The Untold Story of German Commercial Presence between the Wars
From the left to the right: Christina Lubinski (Copenhagen), Douglas Haynes (Dartmouth), Raman Mahadevan (Chennai).
Christina Lubinski (Copenhagen): On Race and Recruiting Practices in Foreign Firms in India: The Case of German Multinationals before 1947
Raman Mahadevan (Chennai): Wrangling over the Colonial Indian Market: The Untold Story of German Commercial Presence between the Wars
From the left to the right: Christina Lubinski (Copenhagen), Douglas Haynes (Dartmouth), Raman Mahadevan (Chennai).