Shaping India: Economic Change in Historical Perspective - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0415678048 ISBN 13: 9780415678049

Casa editrice: Routledge India, 2011

Riassunto

This volume seeks to unravel and contextualize the so-called dichotomy of ‘old’ and ‘new’ India and what binds them together. To understand this complex process, it attempts to apply a long-term historical perspective, a different conception of the economy and cross-disciplinary approaches.

The exceptional feature of this volume is the large historical canvas of essays and its sensitivity to the regional dimension in a country as large and diverse as India. They deal with issues ranging from land and agriculture, entrepreneurship, industry and demographic trends to a critical anatomy of modern Indian economic historiography. Together these essays contribute in providing significantly new and enriching insights into the complex process of transition from colonial to post-colonial economic development. There has been a conscious effort in most cases to capture the influence of the colonial economic structures and processes in shaping the trajectory of growth and development in the post-independence period. Drawing upon a large amount of extremely rich and varied data and information on the socio-economic trends, the book is lucid, well-crafted and reader-friendly.

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L'autore:

D. Narayana is Reserve Bank of India Chair Professor at Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

Raman Mahadevan is Professor, Institute of Development Alternatives, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

Contenuti:

Introduction D. Narayana and Raman Mahadevan PART I: Land and Agriculture 1. Evolution of Land Rights in India S. Neelakantan 2. Structural Changes in land Distribution and Its Implications for Improving Access to Land K. N. Nair and Arindam Banerjee 3.Changing Agrarian Structure in India: Reflections on Pre-Independence Ideology and Post-Independence Reality A. Vaidyanathan 4. Population Pressure and Labour Intensification: An Indian Historical Perspective N. Krishnaji 5. Institutional Strangleholds: Agricultural Science and the State in India Rajeswari S. Raina Part II: Entrepreneurship and Industry 6. Revisiting Indian Capitalists in Colonial India: Some Critical Reflections Raman Mahadevan 7. From Merchants to Multinational Enterprises: European Trading Firms in South India’s Plantation Sector Tharian George K. 8. Fiat or Trust: A Story of Indian Banking (1857-2007) with a Regional Perspective D. Narayana 9. Six Decades of Industrial Development: Growth of the Manufacturing Sector in India from the 1940s C.P. Chandrasekhar PART III: Demographic Trends 10. Fertility in India since Independence: An Overview K. Srinivasan 11. Mortality Trends and Patterns in India: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives K. Navaneetham and C.S. Krishnakumar 12. A Long Haul: Revisiting International Migration from India during the 19th and 20th centuries S. Irudaya Rajan and Prabhat Kumar PART IV: A Critical Theoretical Perspective 13. An Experimental Moment in Economic History K.T. Rammohun

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge India
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0415678048
• ISBN 13: 9780415678049
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 380
• Redattore: Narayana D., Mahadevan Raman