| ID | 139623 |
| Title Proper | Project codification |
| Other Title Information | legal legacies of the British raj on the Indian mercantile credit institution hundi |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Martin, Marina |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This discussion contributes to the history of the colonial rule of law that governed market practice in India using the South Asian indigenous credit institution known as hundi. A centuries-old artery of credit for Indian merchant networks, and a living institution that has largely been driven underground by twenty-first-century laws, hundi provides a window into the dynamics of colonial law from the commercial and financial legislation of the 1880s to the final attempt to codify hundi in the 1960s and 1970s in a bid to bridge the growing disconnect between the Indian indigenous banking sector and modern banking. I chart the British colonial and post-independence history of hundi as means of understanding the wider political, legislative and economic dynamics of colonial state formation and the legacies of legislation. |
| `In' analytical Note | Contemporary South Asia Vol. 23, No.1; Mar 2015: p.67-84 |
| Journal Source | Contemporary South Asia Vol: 23 No 1 |
| Key Words | Economic history ; Law ; Hawala ; Hundi ; Merchant Credit |