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Useful Friendship

Hardcover • 2014 • 1. edition

Useful Friendship

By Peter Robb

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This book describes how friendship or quasi-friendly behaviour underwrote British life and work in Calcutta before and after 1800, even between patrons and clients, and when personal relations were not amicable. Amid the uncertainties as a new town was created, the parameters of proper behaviour were defined by sociability, trust, and reputation. The book explains friendship's role in credit and debt; in town-development, securing contracts, and managing work; and in early colonial law andadmini...Show more

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9780198099185

Publisher

OUP India

Published year

2014

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1

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Useful Friendship

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Hardcover

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