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Tanushree Dutta1
and Dipankar Dey 2
1Adamas University, Barasat, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
2 Department of Business Management, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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This paper analyses in detail, the Swadeshi enterprises/institutions of Bengal that were established during British rule. The study focuses on the present status, (as of 2019), of the Swadeshi enterprises of Bengal for the period between 1820s and 1947. Data consisting of 1946 Swadeshi enterprises, segregated into 26 different categories/sectors, has been collected using secondary sources. The survival status of the Swadeshi enterprises has been analysed based on the nature of technology used in the production process and the production objectives of the Swadeshi firms. To understand the dominant traits of the current owners of the presently active Swadeshi firms based on entrepreneurs’ social identity, primary data have been collected, with a set of questionnaires, by the in-depth direct interview of at least one owner of each 26 different categories of industries documented in the study of the surviving Swadeshi entrepreneurs.
Swadeshi entrepreneur, Bengal industry, indigenous technology, social identity, Bengal partition
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