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30 - History

University College London

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Article title

"Frictions" d'empire: les reseaux de circulation des successions et des patrimonies dans la Bombay coloniale des annees 1780

Type

D - Journal article

DOI

Title of journal

Annales: historoire, sciences sociale

Article number

Volume number

Issue number

First page of article

1175

ISSN of journal

0395-2649

Year of publication

2010

URL

Number of additional authors

Additional information

Interdisciplinary

Cross-referral requested

Research group

None

Proposed double-weighted

Double-weighted statement

Reserve for a double-weighted output

Non-English

Yes

English abstract

This article contributes to historiographical debates on imperial networks (of persons, things and capital). Using original archival research, it investigates the constraints on flows of capital from later 18th-century colonial India to Britain, and the social and cultural mechanisms used by East India Company servants to compensate for these ‘frictions’ of empire. Beginning with a survey of network paradigms as they apply to empire, the article examines the Bombay remittance system’s interpenetration with (for example) probate administration, gifting, domesticity and slavery. The article underlines the significance of sociable epistolary practices for the maintenance of colonial credit networks in British India.