List of Tables. Acknowledgements. A Convolute. Introduction 1. The Institutional Crisis 2. Retrieving Trust: The Banks, the State and the Press 3. The Victims 4. The Losers’ Responses 5. Grasping Greed. Epilogue. Appendix 1 Banks in Calcutta, 1947. Appendix 2 Bank in Liquidation. Appendix 3 Archival Records. Index
Biography
Prasanta Ray is Professor Emeritus in Sociology, Presidency University, Kolkata, and Honorary Visiting Professor, Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata, India. He was Professor and Head, Department of Political Science, Presidency College; Professor-in-Charge, Department of Sociology, Presidency College; Guest Faculty member, Department of Sociology, Calcutta University; Member, Calcutta Research Group; and Member, Working Group on Under-Graduate Colleges in India, National Knowledge Commission, 2006. His books include Conflict and the State: An Exploration in the Behaviour of the Post-Colonial State in India (1991) and Pratyaha: Everyday Lifeworlds: Dilemmas, Contestations and Negotiations (co-edited with Nandini Ghosh, 2016).
‘[This book] illuminates not only our social and economic history but also the moral economy of underdeveloped capitalism . . . reminds one of Adam Smith and Marx on early capitalism.’
Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, former Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, former Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research, and former Vice-Chancellor, Visva-Bharati University, India
