Caste and Capitalism in Colonial India: The Nattukottai Chettiars

David W. Rudner · University of California Press (1994)

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Standard peer-reviewed account of the Nattukottai Chettiar mercantile network across Burma, Ceylon, Malaya and the Straits. Cited as the academic anchor for the mercantile-network edges in the Ecumene atlas.

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