Debts and debtors

Author(s)

• Malamoud, Charles

Bibliographic Information

Debts and debtors

edited by Charles Malamoud

Vikas Pub. House, c1983

Note

"This volume is the English translation of volume 4 of Puruṣārtha, a journal published in Paris by the Centre d'etudes de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud"--P. facing t.p

"Jointly sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, and Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris."--P. facing t.p

Bibliography: p. [225]-233

Includes index

Contents of Works

• The debt to ancestors and the category of sapiṇḍa / Louis Dumont
• The theology of debt in Brahmanism / Charles Malamoud
• Usage and usury in Indian folk tales / Martine Todorov
• Creditors, kings and death : determinations and implications of bondage in Tehrī-Gaṛhwāl (Indian Himalayas) / Jean-Claude Galey
• Peasant debt in colonial Bihar / Jacques Pouchepadass
• From internal to external debt : observations on changes in credit practices in Sri Lanka in colonial times / Eric Meyer
• Moneylenders and clan headmen : the ethnography of indebtedness in East Nepal / Phillippe Sagant

Details

• NCID: BA42485395
• ISBN:
  • 070692231X
• LCCN: 83905172
• Country Code: ii
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: New Delhi
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 237 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HG4028.D3
  • DC19 : 332.7/43/0954
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Debt -- India
  • LCSH : Debtor and creditor -- India