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The Paradox of the Raj
This Palgrave Pivot revisits the topic of how British colonialism moulded work and life in India and what kind of legacy it left behind. Did British r...
Enterprise and the Emergence of Capitalism from 1700
Studying firms and entrepreneurs over three centuries, this book unravels the historical roots of the impressive business growth witnessed in contempo...
The majority of workers in South Asia are employed in industries that rely on manual labour and craft skills. Some of these industries have existed fo...
From Antiquity to the Present
This enthralling book offers a new approach to Indian economic history, placing trade and mercantile activity in the region within a global framework....
From the end of the eighteenth century, two distinct global processes began to transform livelihoods and living conditions in the South Asia region. T...
This new edition of An Economic History of Early Modern India extends the timespan of the analysis to incorporate further research. This allows for a ...
The Worldโs Most Powerful Corporation
This groundbreaking study examines how the East India Company founded an empire in India at the same time it started losing ground in business. For ov...
The death of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in 1707 until the annexation of Maratha territories by the British East India Company in 1818 was a period o...
Handloom Weaving Industry in Colonial India
This book presents a comprehensive history of handloom weaving industry in India to challenge and revise the view that competition from machine-produc...
Labour and Livelihood
As author of the hugely influential The Economic History of India 1857-1947, Tirthankar Roy has established himself as the leading contemporary econom...
India's Miracle State
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From 1950 to the Present
This book explores the historical roots of rapid economic growth in South Asia, with reference to politics, markets, resources, and the world economy....
The Price of Conquering Nature
In the monsoon regions of South Asia, the rainy season sustains life but brings with it the threat of floods, followed by a long stretch when little g...
Debates about the origins and effects of European rule in the non-European world have animated the field of economic history since the 1850s. This pio...
India 1947 and Beyond
"Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy trace India's economic growth since 1947 and the legal reforms that have allowed it to settle in, however unevenly ...
Indian Weaving in the Twentieth Century
After the mid nineteenth century trade between Europe and Asia caused a "deindustrialization" in the latter. This book argues that the effects of Engl...
Much has been written on the Indian economy but this is the first major attempt to present India's economic history as a continuous process, and to pl...
Volume 5, 1997โ2008
The fifth volume on the history of the Reserve Bank of India covers the years from 1997โ98 to 2007โ08. During this period, it introduced key insti...
By accessibly recounting and analyzing the unique experience of institutions in colonial Indiawhich were influenced heavily by both British Common Law...
India's History in a Changing Climate
How interventions to mitigate climate-caused poverty and inequality in India came at a cost to environmental sustainability. In the monsoon regions of...
Oxford India Short Introductions
Providing a social and economic history of natural disasters in India, this short and exploratory work uncovers the silent processes behind relief and...
Enterprise and Community in South Asian History 1700-1940
This book chronicles how the concept of organizing people to serve economic ends emerged in early modern and colonial India. It examines rules of coop...
Volume 5, 1997-2008
The fifth volume on the history of the Reserve Bank of India covers the years from 1997-98 to 2007-08. During this period, it introduced key instituti...
Before Independence and After
Law matters for economic development, but where does it come from? And through what mechanisms does it affect different parts of the economy? In this ...