Investing in "Home" : Marwari Mobile Merchants and their Native Towns in Shekhawati, Rajasthan

• 中谷 純江

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• <研究ノート>「故郷」への投資 : ラージャスターンの商業町と移動商人マールワーリー

Abstract

The Marwaris are renowned all over India for having emerged in the nineteenth century as the most prominent group of traders. Pursuing business opportunities, they migrated from their native places in the princely states of Rajputana, which was not under direct colonial rule, to towns and cities in British India where they made substantial gains from trade, banking, and commerce. The fortunes they made abroad were sent back to their native towns and utilised in various symbolic investments, such as building construction and philanthropic projects. In each town of Shekhawati there are many havelis (mansions), public wells, temples, memorials, schools and hospitals, constructed and donated by Marwaris. Based on fieldwork conducted in Churu, a business town in Shekhawati, this paper will discuss how Marwaris have kept in touch with their native places after migration and why they invested in the houses and towns they had left. By situating the Marwaris in the historical context of their native town, the meaning of 'homeland' for diasporic mobile merchants will be explored.

Journal

• 現代インド研究

  現代インド研究 3 153-170, 2013-02

  人間文化研究機構地域研究推進事業「現代インド地域研究」

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Details

• CRID: 1390290699816364416
• NII Article ID: 120005244638
• NII Book ID: AA12520400
• ISSN: 21859833
• DOI: 10.14989/173742
• HANDLE: 2433/173742
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • IRDB
  • CiNii Articles
  • KAKEN