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100			_aVanaik, Anish _9120166
245		0	_aBusiness as Usual? Bazars and Communalism in Colonial Delhi, 1913-32
260			_bSouth Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies
260			_c2023
300			_a1204-1221
520			_aThis paper uncovers a hitherto unnoticed pattern of communal segregation among establishments located in some of Delhi's most important bazars. It demonstrates that this pattern, emerging between 1913 and 1932, was driven by structural features of the ways in which Delhi's trade and retail interacted with communal violence in the 1920s. Those features include the dislocating effects of communal violence on bazars. More strident political activity by merchants, however, was important fuel to this fire. Merchants did not, also, restrict themselves to repeating communal tropes developed elsewhere. Their self-organisation gave shape to a conception of Hindu' and Muslim' trades. Rather than see a communal pre-Partition' in the 1930s, this evidence suggests that communal segregation was already well on the rise in the 1920s. Business as usual, then, was a source of deepening communal antagonisms rather than, as is sometimes assumed, a source of everyday bonhomie.
650			_a Commerce _93973
650			_a Religion _92075
650			_a Riots _95053
650			_a Segregation _930582
650			_a Trade
650			_aMarkets _9626
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2024.2283683
999			_c133652 _d133652