Patrons and Politics in Northern India
Patrons and Politics in Northern India
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印度北部的赞助人和政治
作者：
C. Bayly
对于世纪中期印度北方大城市的许多印度教居民来说，社区中最有权势的人物是当地银行家和商人的富裕家庭成员，他们控制着信贷，并为当地的宗教生活提供赞助。就像在最小的集市上，巨大的权力掌握在小放债人手中一样，在仍然是集市和住宅区集群的城市里，银行和贸易寡头用他们的信用票据决定了商业活动的范围，并通过他们在布、谷物和糖方面的次级贸易帮助供应社会。
For many Hindu residents of the great cities of northern India in the mid-nineteenth century, the most powerful figures in the community were members of the wealthy families of indigenous bankers and traders which controlled credit and dispensed patronage for the religious life of their localities. Just as in the smallest bazaar great power lay in the hands of the petty moneylender, so in the cities which remained clusters of bazaars and residential blocs, the banking and trading oligarchies determined the limits of commercial activity with their credit notes, and helped to supply the community through their secondary trades in cloth, grain and sugar.