Roy, Tirthankar 
ORCID: 0000-0002-4183-2781
(2002)
Economic history and modern India: redefining the link.
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 16 (3).
pp. 109-130.
ISSN 0895-3309
Abstract
This paper argues that to restore the link between economic history and modern India, a different narrative of Indian economic history is needed. An exclusive focus on colonialism as the driver of India's economic history misses those continuities that arise from economic structure or local conditions. In fact, market-oriented British imperial policies did initiate a process of economic growth based on the production of goods intensive in labor and natural resources. However, productive capacity per worker was constrained by low rates of private and public investment in infrastructure, excessively low rates of schooling, social inequalities based on caste and gender and a delayed demographic transition to lower birthrates and the resultant heavy demographic burden placed on physical capital and natural resources.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.aeaweb.org/jep/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2002 American Economic Association |
| Divisions: | Economic History |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Apr 2008 10:52 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2024 05:15 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/4420 |
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