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Ritu Birla is an historian of modern South Asia. She is an associate Professor of History and Director of the Centre for South Asian Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. ==Work== After receiving her BA ''summa cum laude'' from Columbia College, Columbia University in 1987〔Columbia College Today, "College Honors Women in Academia on 20th Anniversary of Coeducation" http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/mar04/cover.php (accessed 4 April 2014)〕 she travelled to the University of Cambridge on a Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship for a second BA and MA, before returning to Columbia for her PhD. Her research is centred on capitalism and culture, colonial/postcolonial studies, legal history, as well as critical/gendered approaches to social/political theory. Her recent book ''Stages of Capital: Law, Culture and Market Governance in Late Colonial India''〔''Stages of Capital: Law, Culture and Market Governance in Late Colonial India.'' Durham: Duke University Press, 2009.〕 was the winner of the 2010 Stansky Book Prize (formerly the Albion Prize, awarded by the North American Conference on British Studies).〔North American Conference on British Studies, "Recent Award Winners" http://www.nacbs.org/prizes/albion-book-prize (accessed 31 May 2013)〕 She is recognized for bringing empirical studies of India to current questions in social and political theory, her research has also brought forth new questions of the global study of capitalism and its forms of governing. Thomas R. Metcalf notes: ::Rarely have historians endeavored to include studies of indigenous mercantile capitalism in their accounts of colonial India. In this ambitious, excitingly original work, the kin-based mercantile firm, embedded in the undivided Hindu joint family, takes center stage in the creation of a modern India...() together economics, law, and history in a powerful vision that shapes afresh our understanding of capitalism and colonialism.〔"Review: Stages of Capital" ''Journal of Interdisciplinary History'' vol 40 number 4 (2010)〕 In ''Stages of Capital'' Birla looks at the relationship between gambling (like rain gambling) and speculation as one of the legal sites of the emergence of a market-economy under the British Raj. Speculation is currently one of her research focuses.〔''The Economic Times'', "Why do rich Indians fall behind in philanthropic activities?" http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-01-14/news/28427431_1_gift-dan-donations (accessed 18 April 2013)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ritu Birla」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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