Household size and household structure in western India c. 1700-1950: Beginning an exploration

Indian Economic and Social History Review

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 23-33

  Guha, Sumit ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT CALCUTTA   (India)

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EID: 22044455243     PISSN: 00194646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001946469803500102     Document Type: Article

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2. Alan Macfarlane, The Origins of English Individualism, Oxford, 1978, pp. 25, 202. Since English industrial capitalism may not live out its seventh century without infusions of Korean industrial capital and management, further comment on this vision would be redundant.
3. On the other hand, Roland Lardinois suggests that the modern definition of the joint family in fact originated in colonial officialdom's almost simultaneous discovery of private land rights and Sanskrit texts in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. See R. Lardinois 'Peut-on Classer La Famille Hindoue?' Actes des Recherches en Science Sociales, Nos 57-58, 1985, p. 34.
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21. Census of India. IV. Pt. I. Report, pp. 5, 107.
22. Census Report, p. 107.
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