1st Edition

A New Economic History of Colonial India

284 Pages 35 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 35 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 35 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

A New Economic History of Colonial India provides a new perspective on Indian economic history. Using economic theory and quantitative methods, it shows how the discipline is being redefined and how new scholarship on India is beginning to embrace and make use of concepts from the larger field of global economic history and economics. The book discusses the impact of property rights, the... Read more

1. Introduction Latika Chaudhary, Bishnupriya Gupta, Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy 2. Indian economic performance and living standards: 1600-2000 Stephen Broadberry and Bishnupriya Gupta 3. The Colonial Transition and the Decline of the East India Company, c.1746-1784 Santhi Hejeebu 4. The Myth and Reality of Deindustrialisation in Early Modern India Indrajit Ray 5. The Rise of Modern Industry in Colonial India Bishnupriya Gupta 6. Colonial India and the World Economy, c. 1850-1940 G. Balachandran 7. Agriculture in Colonial India Latika Chaudhary, Bishnupriya Gupta, Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy 8. The Long Run Consequences of Colonial Institutions Lakshmi Iyer 9. Railways in Colonial India: An Economic Achievement? Dan Bogart and Latika Chaudhary 10. Caste, Colonialism and Schooling: Education in British India Latika Chaudhary 11. The Growth of a Labour Market in the Twentieth Century Tirthankar Roy 12. Industrial Labour in Late Colonial India Susan Wolcott 13. Law and Contract Enforcement in Colonial India Anand V. Swamy 14. The Partition and its Aftermath: Empirical Investigations Prashant Bharadwaj and Kevin Quirolo

 

Biography

Latika Chaudhary is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy at the Naval Postgraduate School, USA

Bishnupriya Gupta is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, UK

Tirthankar Roy is Professor of Economics History at the London School of Economics, UK.

Anand V. Swamy is Professor of Economics at Williams College in Massachusetts, U.S.A