This paper is a narration on practices of unlimited liability Marwari businesses of a textile town in Western India. Although depicted as an ‘outdated’ form of incorporation, these businesses were surprisingly resilient prompting us to engage in exploration of their ways of doing business. We deployed Mignolo’s concept of colonial-matrix-of-power to anchor our interpretive sense-making of enactments of our participant businessmen. The daily doings of the businessmen and their families enacted a ‘way of life’, Marwaripan. Activities created an intermesh across ‘local’ spaces of family, business and religion, constituting, what we call, a decolonial matrix-of-praxis. It created a ‘local’ form of Marwari governance where circulation and access to capital depended on extensively (and labouriously) negotiated construction of ‘status’ within open spaces of ‘enunciation’. However, preserving Marwaripan also required arduous striving and collective toil to continuously construct subjectivities based on customary dharma through a communitarian pedagogy that could wean away actors from the state driven pedagogy of regular schools.

本文讲述了印度西部一个纺织小镇的无限责任 Marwari 企业的做法。尽管被描述为一种“过时”的公司形式，但这些企业具有惊人的弹性，促使我们探索他们的经营方式。我们部署了 Mignolo 的殖民权力矩阵概念来锚定我们对参与者商人制定的解释性意义。商人及其家人的日常行为制定了一种“生活方式”，Marwaripan. 活动在家庭、企业和宗教的“本地”空间中创造了一种相互联系，构成了我们所说的去殖民实践矩阵。它创造了一种“地方”形式的马尔瓦里治理，在这种形式中，资本的流通和获取依赖于在“宣示”的开放空间内广泛（且费力地）协商构建“地位”。然而，保护 Marwaripan 也需要艰苦的努力和集体的辛劳，以通过社区教育法不断构建基于习惯法的主体性，这可以使行为者远离国家驱动的正规学校教学法。