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The Cambridge economic history of India. Volume 2, C. 1757-c. 1970 / edited by Dharma Kumar with the editorial assistance of Meghnad Desai

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1983.
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1 online resource (xviii, 1,047 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Dharma Kumar and Desai, Meghnad
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Contents
The land and the people -- The mid-eighteenth-century background / Tapan Raychaudhuri -- Agrarian relations: Northern and Central India / Eric Stokes -- Agrarian relations: Eastern India / B. Chaudhuri -- Agrarian relations: Western India / H. Fukazawa -- Agrarian relations: South India / Dharma Kumar -- Regional economy (1757-1857): North India / Tom G. Kessinger -- Regional economy (1757-1857): Eastern India / S. Bhattacharya and B. Chaudhuri -- Regional economy (1757-1857): Western India / V.D. Divekar -- Regional economy (1757-1857): South India / Dharma Kumar -- National income / A. Heston -- Population (1757-1947) / Leela Visaria and Pravin Visaria -- The occupational structure / J. Krishnamurty -- The beginnings of the modern economy -- The growth of large-scale industry to 1947 / Morris D. Morris -- Irrigation and railways: irrigation / Elizabeth Whitcombe -- Irrigation and railways: railways / John M. Hurd -- Money and credit (1858-1947) / A.G. Chandavarkar -- Foreign trade and balance of payments (1757-1947) / K.N. Chaudhuri -- Price movements and fluctuations in economic activity (1860-1947) / Michelle McAlpin -- The fiscal system / Dharma Kumar -- Post-independence developments -- The Indian economy since independence (1947-70) / A. Vaidyanathan -- The Pakistan economy since independence (1947-70) / Swadesh R. Bose.
Summary
The Cambridge Economic History of India, published in two volumes, aims at tracing the changes in the economy of India from the thirteenth to the middle of the present century and beyond. The second volume covers the period 1757-1970, from the establishment of British rule to its termination, with epilogues on the post-Independence period. Part I opens with a broad description of the economy in the middle of the eighteenth century, then describes general economic trends in four main regions up to the middle of the nineteenth century, and includes a discussion of changes in the agrarian structure up to the end of 1947. Part II takes up various themes for the economy as a whole, while Part III deals with post-Independence developments in India and Pakistan. The Cambridge Economic History of India will be widely accepted as the standard work of reference on the subject, and the volumes will be of relevance to fields other than economic history, being the first major collaborative work of its kind to explore the shift of an advanced Asian civilization from pre-colonial times to independence.
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9781139054522 (ebook)
9780521228022 (hardback)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).
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