Geography or politics? Regional inequality in colonial India

Roy, Tirthankar ORCID: 0000-0002-4183-2781 (2014) Geography or politics? Regional inequality in colonial India. European Review of Economic History, 18 (3). pp. 324-348. ISSN 1361-4916

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Explaining regional inequality in the nineteenth-century world forms a major preoccupation of global history. A big country like India, being composed of regions that differed in geographical and political characteristics, raises a parallel set of issues to those debated in global economic history. With a new dataset, the paper attempts to tackle these issues, and finds evidence to suggest that regional differences, and divergence, were significantly influenced by geographical conditions.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://academic.oup.com/ereh
Additional Information:	© 2014 European Historical Economics Society
Divisions:	Economic History
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DS Asia H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Date Deposited:	29 Jun 2018 13:59
Last Modified:	02 Nov 2025 20:36
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/88845

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