...Darren C. Zook Farms and Factories: Social Profile of Large Farmers and Rural Industrialists in West India . By Mario Rutten . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1995 . xviii, 396 pp. $29.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 260 THE JOURNAL...

...Howard Erdman India's Industrialists . Vol. I . By Margaret Herdeck and Gita Piramal . Washington, D.C. : Three Continents Press , 1985 . xiv, 467 pp. Illustrations, Appendix, Bibliography, Index, Maps. $45 (casebound); $75 (deluxe ed.). Towards a New Frontier: History of the Bank...

... economic and social articulations of the peasant household. Alas, The North Indian Peasant Goes to Market does not live up to its title. A N AND A. YANG University of Utah The Marwaris: From Traders to Industrialists. By THOMAS A. TIMBERG. New Delhi: Vikas, 1979. vi, 176 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography...

...Wellington K. K. Chan Emigrant Entrepreneurs: Shanghai Industrialists in Hong Kong . By Wong Siu-lun . Hong Kong : Oxford University Press . 1988 . xii, 244 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 921 complicated...

...Andrew B. Liu Making Money: How Taiwanese Industrialists Embraced the Global Economy . By Gary G. Hamilton and Cheng-shu Kao . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2018 . 320 pp. 9781503604278 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020...

...Donald W. Attwood Abstract Has the organization of commercial agriculture in the Third World been shaped primarily by external forces from the world economy? This study of sugar production in northern and western India shows that industrialists were generally unable to impose a plantation system...

... and the industrialists to regulate their activities. These interests also appealed to the nationalist politicians for redress against government, at times forcing an alliance between industrialists and government to suppress the Congress movement in Bombay, at other times forcing an alliance between the industrialists...

... acceptance of these assumptions casts some doubt on the reliability of his understanding of rural India. University of Missouri IMTIAZ AHMAD Shri Ram: A Biography. BY KHUSHWANT SINGH AND ARUN JOSHI. New York: Asia Publishing House, 1968. 240 pp. $4.25. Biographies of major Indian industrialists can add much...

... class or the process of its formation. The book actually starts with a discussion of imperial policy toward industry, not with the background of Indian industrialists, their businesses, their ideological commitments, or their political organizations. These issues emerge somewhat sketchily and only after...

... that Spencerian social theory was popular. Unlike such revolutions in the West as the Glorious Revolution and the French Revolution, it was not the modern bourgeoisie but the former samurai and the nobility who led the Meiji government from the time of its inception in 1868. Industrialists, merchants, and farmers...

... Emigrant Entrepreneurs: Shanghai Industrialists in Hong Kong. By W O N G SIU-LUN. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press. 1988. xii, 244 pp. This is an ambitious attempt at expanding our theoretical understanding of the connections between entrepreneurship, ethnicity, and kinship among a group of transplanted...

...; like their private sector counterparts, neoclassical economists in the Thai government have supported a marriage of exports with industrial deepening. And Hewison notes that the shift was as much a result of pressure from Thai bankers and industrialists, themselves beneficiaries of prior ISI strategies...

... IMTIAZ AHMAD Shri Ram: A Biography. BY KHUSHWANT SINGH AND ARUN JOSHI. New York: Asia Publishing House, 1968. 240 pp. $4.25. Biographies of major Indian industrialists can add much to our knowledge of technological and financial techniques in an underdeveloped country. They can illuminate the personal...

... of investment was covered by reinvested earnings of industrial firms. It would be interesting to know more about this crucial source of industrial finance and specifically what factors influenced industrialists to save and reinvest. Does the assumed relationship between high rates of profits (and therefore...

... to promote Taylorism in China in 1915–16: the future executive director of the Academia Sinica Yang Xingfo 楊杏佛, personal name Quan 楊銓, and the industrialist and reformer Mu Xiangyue 穆湘玥, personal name Ouchu 穆藕初 (Chen Z. 1984 ; Liu W.-P. 2001 : 84–89; Xu and Lao 2001 : 94–97; Xu and Chen 2005 ; Morgan...

... STUDIES in northern and western India shows that industrialists were generally unable to impose a plantation system on the local peasantry, despite the great technical and economic advantages of doing so. Control of the land, in most cases, did not pass into the hands of industrialists. The organization...

... Govardhandas Parekh, Sheth Man- galdas Girdhardas, in Gujarati (Ahmedabad: Sheth Mathuradas Mangaldas, 1955), p. 84. 366 HOWARD SPODEK deserted him. But, as Gandhi reports in his Autobiography, a wealthy Ahmedabad industrialist appeared and donated Rs. 13,000 to save the ashram. The industrialist was Ambalal...

.... It would be interesting to know more about this crucial source of industrial finance and specifically what factors influenced industrialists to save and reinvest. Does the assumed relationship between high rates of profits (and therefore income) and high rates of savings hold in India? What types...

... against the development of healthy trade relationships. He is particularly concerned over the impact of groups of financially powerful buyers, "a class which creeps as it were between the small-scale industrialist and the consumer," depriving the petty industrialist of the free disposal of his product...

... feels that practices such as this militate seriously against the development of healthy trade relationships. He is particularly concerned over the impact of groups of financially powerful buyers, "a class which creeps as it were between the small-scale industrialist and the consumer," depriving...