Unsettled settlers: migrant workers and industrial capitalism in Calcutta
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The personal decisions of migrants need to be taken into account when researching migration and urbanization. An examination of 80 migrant families in Titagarh, India, show the importance of the role of personal choice in migration patterns. Those who chose to leave their villages and work in the mills outside Calcutta had circular migrating patterns, continually returning to their birthplace. This was not solely a response to economic needs but also took cultural and personal factors into account.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 1997
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Committed mothers and well-adjusted children: Privatization, early-years education and motherhood in Calcutta
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New definitions of good mothering among middle class families in Calcutta and the way in which early education has reshaped women's lives as daughters-in-law and mothers of successful future white-collar workers is explored. Their roles are explored as consumers within a highly competitive local educational landscape and it is argued that it is through preschool education and the related practices that these women actively shape discourses of politics and modernity.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 2006
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Commercial world of Mancherji Khurshedji and the Dutch East India Company: A study of mutual relationships
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An attempt is made to elucidate the multifaceted world of a merchant and ship-owner Mancherji Khurshedji, whose career shows a great deal of dynamism and also an interesting trajectory is presented. Mancherji Khurshedji's successes and failures as merchant and broker of the Dutch East India Company in the context of Surat's changing political economy in eighteenth century are explained.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 2007
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