Running behind Lakshmi : the search for wealth in India's stock market
Rustomjee, Adil
Running behind Lakshmi : the search for wealth in India's stock market by Adil Rustomjee - Gurugram : Hachette, ©2025 - xiv, 862 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part One: From the Banyan to the SIP Part Two: Approaches and Methods Part Three: Players Part Four: Miscellany
From banyan trees to electronic screens – the authoritative account of India's stock market over two centuries. For millions of people, the stock market is the canvas on which are sketched fantasies of riches, of lives transformed. Yet, the history and methods of one of modern India's most transformative forces remain underexplored till now. Starting from the early nineteenth century, when a few banias traded shares under banyan trees, to the Cotton and Share Mania occasioned by the American Civil War, to the decades of marking time during the Nehruvian Era, to 1991's great unshackling that made the market accessible to the public, all the way to the market cycles of the new millennium, Running behind Lakshmi brings India's stock market into focus.
9789357315487
Stock Market -- India
Investment
Indian Finance
Wealth Creation
332.6 / RUS-R
Running behind Lakshmi : the search for wealth in India's stock market by Adil Rustomjee - Gurugram : Hachette, ©2025 - xiv, 862 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part One: From the Banyan to the SIP Part Two: Approaches and Methods Part Three: Players Part Four: Miscellany
From banyan trees to electronic screens – the authoritative account of India's stock market over two centuries. For millions of people, the stock market is the canvas on which are sketched fantasies of riches, of lives transformed. Yet, the history and methods of one of modern India's most transformative forces remain underexplored till now. Starting from the early nineteenth century, when a few banias traded shares under banyan trees, to the Cotton and Share Mania occasioned by the American Civil War, to the decades of marking time during the Nehruvian Era, to 1991's great unshackling that made the market accessible to the public, all the way to the market cycles of the new millennium, Running behind Lakshmi brings India's stock market into focus.
9789357315487
Stock Market -- India
Investment
Indian Finance
Wealth Creation
332.6 / RUS-R