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'''Kanakalatha Mukund''' (''née'' Narasimhan) is an Indian historian. Her areas of research were the mercantile history of [[south India]] and the history of women's traditional rights and occupations.<br />
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==Life and career==<br />
Kanakalatha Narasimhan was born to Janaki Narasimhan and [[Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan|C.V. Narasimhan]]. Her father was a member of the [[Indian Civil Service]] and an [[Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations]]. She has a sister, Hemalatha.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|url=http://www.thehindu.com/obituary/10th-August-2011/article13650187.ece|title=Obituary: 10 August 2011|accessdate=25 June 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-P56leXRgAYC|title=The Mahābhārata: An English Version Based on Selected Verses|author=Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan|page=x|isbn=9788120816732|year=1999|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publ. }}</ref> She graduated from [[Barnard College]], [[New York City]], in the class of 1962.<ref>{{cite book|title=Barnard College Alumnae Bibliography|url=http://our.barnard.edu/s/1133/images/editor_documents/AlumnaeBibliography%202011.pdf?sessionid=6a8a3326-e40e-4c75-9ab4-b30bcdf54fb2&cc=1|year=2011|page=90}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Mortarboard|year=1961|publisher=Barnard College|page=172|url=https://archive.org/stream/mortarboard6719barn#page/172/mode/2up/search/kanakalatha}}</ref> In 1964, she married Jagannathan Mukund.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Barnard Alumnae Magazine|url=https://archive.org/stream/barnardalumnaema534barn#page/42/mode/2up/search/mukund|page=42|year=1964|title='62|volume=LIII|number=4}}</ref><br />
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Kanakalatha Mukund has a PhD in economics. She worked at the [[University of Bombay]], Bhopal University,<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Penguin|url=https://penguin.co.in/author/kanakalatha-mukund-foreword-gurcharan-das/|accessdate=25 June 2017|title=Kanakalatha Mukund (Foreword by Gurcharan Das)|archive-date=28 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328191445/http://penguin.co.in/author/kanakalatha-mukund-foreword-gurcharan-das/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and at the [[Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad]] till retirement. Her areas of research were the mercantile history of south India and the history of women's traditional rights and occupations.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Women and Work in Precolonial India: A Reader|editor=Vijaya Ramaswamy|title=About the Editor and Contributors|isbn=978-93-5150741-3|publisher=Sage|year=2016|page=444}}</ref><br />
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In her research on mercantile networks in [[Madras]] and the interaction between local and English traders, Mukund showed that the richest Indian merchants acted as moneylenders as well as brokers of letters of credit and forward agreements between producers such as weavers and the English. The English would pay the weavers in advance who would then find their own suppliers. The Indian traders themselves were divided along caste lines and competed with each other; the tension between them often erupted into violence.<ref name=erikson133>{{cite book|title=Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company, 1600–1757|author=Emily Erikson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XI-rAgAAQBAJ|year=2014|publisher=Princeton University|pages=133–134|isbn=9781400850334}}</ref> While in the earlier period of their interaction, the Indian producers were able to resist English attempts to control their supplies, over time, as English power expanded over south India, both the producers and their Indian merchant capitalist began to lose out, so that by 1725, south Indian textile commerce began to collapse.<ref>{{cite book|title=How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500-1850|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=niuwCQAAQBAJ|publisher=Brill|year=2009|author1=Giorgio Riello|author2=Tirthankar Roy|isbn= 9789047429975|page=201}}</ref><br />
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==Selected works==<br />
===Articles===<br />
* {{cite journal|title=Keynes on Indian Economic Problems and Policies - A Historical Appraisal|author=Kanakalatha Mukund|journal=Indian Economic Journal|year=1984|volume=32|number=1}}<br />
* {{cite journal|title=Mining in South India in the 17th and 18th Centuries|journal=Indica|volume=28|number=1|year=1991|author=Kanakalatha Mukund}}<br />
* {{cite journal|title=Turmeric Land: Women's Property Rights in Tamil Society Since Early Medieval Times|author=Kanakalatha Mukund|journal=Economic & Political Weekly|volume=27|number=17|year=1992}}<br />
* {{cite journal|title=Indian Textile Industry in 17th and 18th Centuries: Structure, Organisation and Responses|author=Kanakalatha Mukund|journal=Economic & Political Weekly|volume=27|number=38|year= 1992|pages=2057–2065|jstor=4398913}}<br />
* {{cite journal|journal=Studies in History|volume=11|issue=1|author=Kanakalatha Mukund|title=Caste Conflict in South India in Early Colonial Port Cities – 1650-1800|publisher=Sage|year=1995}}<br />
* {{cite journal|title=Women's Property Rights in South India: A Review|author=Kanakalatha Mukund|journal=Economic & Political Weekly|volume=34|number=22|year= 1999|url=http://library.law.columbia.edu/urlmirror/CLR/101CLR1181/sa2.htm}}<br />
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===Books===<br />
* {{cite book|editor=Kanakalatha Mukund|title=Andhra Pradesh Economy in Transition|publisher=Centre for Economic and Social Studies|location=Hyderabad|year=1990}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Kanakalatha Mukund|title=The Trading World of the Tamil Merchant: Evolution of Merchant Capitalism in the Coromandel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tjXdDYChdGsC|year=1999|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-81-250-1661-8}}<br />
* {{cite book|author1=Kanakalatha Mukund|author2=B. Syama Sundari|title=Traditional Industry in the New Market Economy: The Cotton Handlooms of Andhra Pradesh|publisher=Sage|year=2001|isbn=8178290111}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Kanakalatha Mukund|title=The View from Below: Indigenous Society, Temples, and the Early Colonial State in Tamilnadu, 1700-1835|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5BMljBxJXtoC|year=2005|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-81-250-2800-0}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Kanakalatha Mukund|title=The World of the Tamil Merchant: Pioneers of International Trade|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bha2eLqMPWcC|date=2015|publisher=Penguin Books Limited|isbn=978-81-8475-612-8}}<br />
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