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Finn, Margot C. (2006) Colonial gifts : family politics and the exchange of goods in British India, c.1780 –1820. Modern Asian Studies, Vol.40 (No.1). pp. 203-231. doi:10.1017/S0026749X06001739 ISSN 0026-749X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X06001739
Abstract
This paper situates Anglo-Indian gifts within a spectrum of
emotionally-charged exchange mechanisms through which material
objects circulated in British India. At one end of this spectrum was the
market, perhaps best exemplified by the public auctions at which the
personal possessions of deceased Anglo-Indians were sold to any buyer
who could pay the purchase price set at probate. At the other end
of the spectrum of exchange were gifts, commissions and bequests,
forms of exchange that offered the British colonial elite mechanisms
for combating the powerful centrifugal forces that operated within
Anglo-Indian families—most notably disease, death and distance.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DS Asia D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | British -- India -- History, India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947, Ceremonial exchange -- India -- History | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Modern Asian Studies | ||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||
ISSN: | 0026-749X | ||||
Official Date: | 9 March 2006 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.40 | ||||
Number: | No.1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 203-231 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1017/S0026749X06001739 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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