{"product_id":"x57sg4ehiw9a","title":"Running Behind Lakshmi by Adil Rustomjee [Hardcover]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom banyan trees to electronic screens, the authoritative two-century history of India’s stock market, written by a chronicler who spent years inside the BSE archives.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStarting 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRunning behind Lakshmi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e brings India's stock market into focus.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy combining archival sources with observations and expertise forged through immersion in the markets, Adil Rustomjee provides a wide-ranging account that is equal parts analytical history, financial practice, and market lore. Brimming with pioneers and adventurers, grand rivalries and petty jealousies, scams and scandals, this is the story of a nation and a people told through a lens that's never been used, but is more relevant than ever.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePerfect for investors, historians, and readers interested in how India learned to trade and build its markets.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"John Murray India","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47815815758074,"sku":"X57SG4EHIW9A","price":1100.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/0473\/5226\/files\/9789357315487_1.jpg?v=1781015695","url":"https:\/\/versoz.co.in\/products\/x57sg4ehiw9a","provider":"VERSOZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}