Compounding Knowledge

This blog post will be an introduction to a fascinating set of books being published as part of a series being curated by Gurcharan Das (one of India's foremost business intellectuals. Yes!, that combination does exist). Das is well known for his books on India's economic transformation:           A few years back, he decided to take a step back from authoring books himself, and directed his attention towards curating stories from Indian economic history. In doing this, he went beyond standard histories of the Tatas and the Ambanis , and decided to tell never-before told tales of India's business communities. He tied up with academic rockstars and started bringing out books on communities such as the Marwaris, Tamils, Parsis and Gujaratis and even managed to mine ancient Sanskrit texts to write about the business acumen of ancient courtesans. The series in question is the Story of Indian Business . In future posts, I will review individual books ...

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