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THE UNDERDEVELOPMENT OF INDIA’S MUSLIM MINORITY:
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
by
Anantdeep Singh
____________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(ECONOMICS)
December 2008
Copyright 2008 Anantdeep Singh
Object Description
| Title | The underdevelopment of India's Muslim minority: an institutional analysis |
| Author | Singh, Anantdeep |
| Author email | singhanant@rocketmail.com; asinghtpr@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Economics |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-04-16 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-11-16 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Nugent, Jeffrey |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Dekle, Robert Klerman, Daniel |
| Abstract | This work suggests that the underdevelopment of South Asia's Muslims vis-à-vis Hindus of the region has its roots in the differences in the commercial institutions and inheritance laws of the two communities. First, the Hindu joint family was a durable institution and could branch out into long term business ventures. Islamic partnerships were not durable and were unable to carry out long term business ventures. This difference gave the Hindus a competitive advantage in the adoption of joint stock companies. Second, whereas Hindu inheritance law tended to encourage capital accumulation, Islamic inheritance law encouraged capital fragmentation. This gave Hindus more access to capital vis-à-vis Muslims in India's capital-scarce economy. As a consequence, India's Hindus came to dominate South Asia's industry, while the Muslims were marginalized. |
| Keyword | India; inheritance law; Islam; Islamic partnership; joint family; Muslim |
| Geographic subject (country) | India |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1778 |
| Rights | Singh, Anantdeep |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Singh-2465 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume14/etd-Singh-2465.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Full text | THE UNDERDEVELOPMENT OF INDIA’S MUSLIM MINORITY: AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS by Anantdeep Singh ____________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (ECONOMICS) December 2008 Copyright 2008 Anantdeep Singh |
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