The lepers, lunatics, the lame, the blind, the infirm and the making of the asylums and benevolent charities: the Indian merchant class and disability in colonial India

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The lepers, lunatics, the lame, the blind, the infirm and the making of the asylums and benevolent charities: the Indian merchant class and disability in colonial India.

Business history has a powerful role in shaping of modern-day business and its engagement with Disability.

In our recent paper, we explore the role of the Indian merchant class in forming of Asylums and Charities for people with disabilities in the nineteenth century colonial India.

The paper is now available ahead of print : https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JMH-07-2020-0046/full/html

Citation : Choudhury Kaul, S, Sandhu, MS and Alam, Q (2021),” The lepers, lunatics, the lame, the blind, the infirm and the making of the asylums and benevolent charities: the Indian merchant class and disability in colonial India, Journal of Management History,Vol. ahead of print.