Local Suppliers of Credit in the Third World, 1750–1960

Edited By Gareth Austin And Kaoru Sugihara. Includes Bibliographical References. Front Matter....Pages i-vii Local Suppliers of Credit in the Third World, 1750-1960: Introduction....Pages 1-25 Front Matter....Pages 27-27 Intermediaries and Change in Eighteenthcentury Gujarat: A Note on G. D. Sharma’s View of Credit, Revenue and Commerce....Pages 29-35 Urban Credit and the Market Economy in Western India, c.1750-1850....Pages 36-54 From Village Moneylender to Rural Banker: Changing Credit in Protoindustrial Japan....Pages 55-90 Front Matter....Pages 91-91 Indigenous Credit Institutions in West Africa, c.1750-c.1960....Pages 93-159 Banking, Credit and Capital in Colonial Natal, c.1850-1910....Pages 160-203 Agricultural Credit in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1890-1914....Pages 204-225 Front Matter....Pages 227-227 British Colonial Policy and Agricultural Credit in Zanzibar, 1890-1963....Pages 229-253 Chettiar Capital and Southeast Asian Credit Networks in the Interwar Period....Pages 254-287 Capital Markets, Sharecropping and Contestability: Singapore Chinese in the Interwar British Malayan Estate Rubber and Pineapple Industries....Pages 288-313 Back Matter....Pages 315-318