Roy, Tirthankar 
ORCID: 0000-0002-4183-2781
(2012)
India in the world economy: from antiquity to the present.
New approaches to Asian history.
, 10
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
ISBN 9781107401471
Abstract
Cross-cultural exchange has characterized the economic life of India since antiquity. Its long coastline has afforded convenient access to Asia and Africa as well as trading partnerships formed in the exchange of commodities ranging from textiles to military technology and from opium to indigo. In a journey across two thousand years, this enthralling book, written by a leading South Asian historian, describes the ties of trade, migration, and investment between India and the rest of the world and shows how changing patterns of globalization have reverberated in economic policy, politics, and political ideology within India. Along the way, the book asks three major questions: Is this a particularly Indian story? When did the big turning points happen? And is it possible to distinguish the modern from the pre-modern pattern of exchange? These questions invite a new approach to the study of Indian history by placing the region at the center of the narrative. This is global history written on India's terms, and, as such, the book invites Indian, South Asian, and global historians to rethink both their history and their methodologies.
| Item Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Official URL: | http://www.cambridge.org/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2012 The Author |
| Divisions: | Economic History |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DS Asia H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions |
| JEL classification: | N - Economic History > N1 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Growth and Fluctuations > N15 - Asia including Middle East |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Oct 2012 13:03 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Jul 2025 17:21 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/47078 |
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