TY - GEN T1 - Bazaar India : markets, society, and the colonial state in Gangetic Bihar A1 - Yang, Anand A. LA - English PP - Berkeley, Calif. PB - University of California Press YR - 1998 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm44957111 AB - The role of markets in linking local communities to larger networks of commerce, culture, and political power is the central element in Anand A. Yang's provocative and original study. Yang uses bazaars in the northeast Indian state of Bihar during the colonial period as the site of his investigation. The bazaar provides a distinctive locale for posing fundamental questions regarding indigenous societies under colonialism and for highlighting less familiar aspects of colonial India. At one level, Yang reconstructs Bihar's marketing system, from its central place in the city of Patna down to the lowest rung of the periodic markets. But he also concentrates on the dynamics of exchanges and negotiations between different groups and on what can be learned through the "voices" of people in the bazaar: landholders, peasants, traders, and merchants. Along the way, Yang uncovers a wealth of details on the functioning of rural trade, markets, fairs, and pilgrimages in Bihar. A key contribution of Bazaar India is its many-stranded narrative history of some of South Asia's primary actors over the past two centuries. But Yang's approach is not that of a detached observer rather, his own voice is engaged with the voices of the past and with present-day historians. By focusing on the world beyond the mud walls of the village, he widens the imaginative geography of South Asian history OP - 305 CN - HF5475.I52 B549 1998eb SN - 9780520919969 SN - 0520919963 SN - 0585249016 SN - 9780585249018 SN - 9780520210998 SN - 0520210999 SN - 9780520211001 SN - 0520211006 KW - Markets : Social aspects : India : Bihar : History. KW - Bihar (India) : Social conditions. KW - Bihār (Inde : État) : Conditions sociales. KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Industries : Retailing. KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Marketing : Direct. KW - TRAVEL : Shopping. KW - Markets : Social aspects KW - Social conditions KW - India : Bihar KW - History ER -