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Published on: 12/4/2007
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Ravi Ahuja (SOAS, University of London)
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Ravi Ahuja (SOAS)
This paper reconsiders an elementary aspect of the history of South Asian capitalism from a transterritorial perspective: the formation of labour markets.It proceeds from the premise that labour markets are invariably and necessarily regulated, though formal and informal devices of regulation may be transformed and recombined in a great variety of historical scenarios.The relevance of a transterritorial perspective for this subject will be demonstrated for three specific cases: (1) the application and adaptation of English ‘master and servant law' to the conditions of colonial India; (2) the creation of a low-pay and inferior-rights segment in the international maritime labour market, to which Indian seamen were confined over more than a century; (3) the emergence of a specific, authoritarian labour policy in late colonial India, that defined the border between what was to become known as the ‘formal' and ‘informal' sectors.
Organiser: Dr Shabnum Tejani and Professor Ravi Ahuja
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