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Anne Hardgrove. Community as Public Culture in the Modern India: The Marwaris of Calcutta, circa 1897–1997. Electronic book. New York: Columbia University Press. 2002. Site access $195.00.

The Marwaris are a group of business people, originating in the region of Rajasthan in northwestern India, who have achieved considerable success as traders and industrialists throughout much of South Asia. Marwari magnates such as G. D. Birla have been among the subcontinent's wealthiest and most influential commercial figures. Economic historians have done much interesting work in analyzing the networks of trade and migration that have made the economic prominence of the Marwaris possible, but these scholars have generally taken the Marwaris' existence as a primordial "community " as a given. The category of Marwari, however, is not indigenous to Rajasthan itself and has come into being only as traders from a range of mercantile subcastes have migrated out to other areas of the subcontinent.

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