Transfer of Economic Power in Corporate Calcutta, 1950–1970
研究了1950至1970年间印度加尔各答大型企业集团所有权从英国转向印度人手中的过程,发现这些企业大多遭遇破产、国有化或排名下降,并基于新史料对现有假说提出修正。
Between 1950 and 1970, the ownership of some of the largest business conglomerates in India changed from British to Indian hands. Almost without exception, the firms formerly under the management of British conglomerates saw bankruptcy, nationalization, relative decline in corporate ranking, and on rare occasions, reinvention of identity. In Indian business history scholarship, this episode is underresearched, even though hypotheses on the transfer-cum-decline exist. Combining a new source, legal documents, with conventional ones, this article revisits the episode and suggests revisions to current hypotheses.