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Modern Indian business history: a bibliographic survey

2005

Business history has been a neglected area in both Economics and History due to various reasons. However, some scholars have attempted to write books on business history basing upon whatever material they could lay their hands on, whereas some others have written individual corporate histories, which are usually sympathetic accounts of the perspective corporate houses and are of restricted circulation. Realising the importance of business history accounts for proper understanding of the overall business and economic scenario of India, an attempt has been made to present a bibliographic survey of business history books in English language pertaining to the colonial and modern period. The paper aimed at presenting a comprehensive account of the books of the following types: viz. general business histories; industrial histories; in-house histories of different companies; souvenirs of the various chambers of commerce and industry; histories of the business houses; accounts of the busine...

How not to commodify the arts: exemplary entrepreneurial practice from India

UNESCO OBSERVATORY, FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND PLANNING, THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE REFEREED E-JOURNAL, 2008

This paper argues that there is a fundamental tension between culture and the market-a tension to which arts entrepreneurs must be sensitive in their efforts to develop a wider market for the arts. The idea of culture as a vital source of difference vanishes if it is valued solely as a commodity, since art markets privilege the tastes and preferences of consumers, not the specific significance that the arts have in their original context or for their creators. Far from protecting cultural diversity, the cultural industries encourage the marketing of art in a manner that can make it illegible to its producers, distort its true nature, and undermine its very purpose. Proposing a definition of arts entrepreneurship relevant to the Indian context, the paper goes on to describe three cases of entrepreneurial practice in India that engage the market while protecting artistic integrity.

Useful Past: Indian Business History as a Forward Linkage in Decision Making

2015

Events do not take place in isolation. There are always circumstances preceding any event as well as consequences. Any understanding of a phenomenon or a situation will usually have to be based on a knowledge and appreciation of the trajectory of circumstances which have lead up to it (O'Brienm, Remenyi 2004). Thinking historically is not an easy process. It definitely requires an appreciation of the dynamic nature of change in human systems, which of course are highly complex. Business history can be turned into actionable knowledge for decision making. Business history of a nation has its own role in shaping the way its policymakers think about future desired goals related to economic, human and entrepreneurship development. The decisions made in the past limit or expand the available solutions. The business history serves as a potential tool for decision making. Other uses of business history can be using relevant past to unite and inspire people, to plan forward and to leave a legacy. However, research in Indian business history and its usage is still in its infancy (Tripathi, 2014). This paper attempts to look at several perspectives on business history and progress of the scholarship in Indian business history. The paper also tries to propagate the potent uses of business history as a decision making tool, and suggest decision makers to encourage development and usage of Indian business history to script India's future. For this conceptual paper, the research undertaken is exploratory in nature with relevant secondary data.

Popular printing and intellectual property in colonial Bengal

This article surveys the early history of printing in colonial Bengal, in particular the rise of the indigenous book trade in the Battala area of Calcutta. The article argues that the likes of Gangakishore Bhattacharya and Bhabanicharan Bandyopadhyay were among the first to attempt to socialize the printed book, leading to the rise of a substantial interpretive community by the middle of the 19th century. At the same time, traces of manuscript book practice lingered in the printed book, especially in the disposition of the title-page and other paratextual apparatus. This article scrutinizes the interface between the manuscript and the printed books, and asks how the conceptions of intellectual property, authorship and entailment evolved within the ambit of the popular book trade. By looking at a number of title-pages from the period, the article tries to examine the relationship between intellectual property and the rise of the popular.