Swadeshi Steam: V O Chidambaram Pillai, and the Battle against the British Maritime Empire
Author: A R Venkatachalapathy
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Price: Rs 999
The conflation of political assertion, a larger social movement and modern economic enterprise is what distinguished the efforts of this company. Such stories are not new in the history of colonial, later imperial, India. Jamshedji Tata and the foundation of the steel city of Jamshedpur and the effort of the young Ghanshyam Das Birla to rally Indian business groups on a platform of economic nationalism are widely known. The Bajaj and Dalmia families’ links to nationalism are also