| Description |
1 online resource (327 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge New Horizons in South Asian Studies |
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Routledge new horizons in South Asian studies.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Introduction: In Search of the Roots of Contemporary Economic Growth in India -- The Role Played by the Rural Economy: Rural Markets and New Entrepreneurs -- Agrarian Development -- Changes in the Village Social Structure: The Emancipation of the Lower Classes -- Consuming "Quasi-Branded Goods" -- The Formation of a National Economy: The Role of Import-Substitution Industrialisation |
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The Growth of Informal Sectors and the Production of "Quasi-Branded Goods" -- Rural Demand and the Growth of the Service and Construction Industries -- Growing Connections between Rural Society and Urban Informal Sectors and the Formation of Mass and "Middle-Class" Markets -- A Silent Revolution: The Emergence of New Types of Entrepreneurs and Their Rural Origins -- The 1991 Economic Reforms and a New Phase in the Development of Formal Sectors -- Notes -- Part I: Stirrings of Economic Development: Moves after World War I |
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Chapter 1: Agriculture in the Great Depression: Agricultural Production and Changes in Rural Society -- Environmental Changes, the Drop in the Prices of Agricultural Products and the Stagnation of Agricultural Production -- Changes in Agricultural Production: Expansion of Output and Intensification of Land Use -- Decline in Common-Use Land and the Intensification of Agriculture -- Drop in Crop Prices and Agricultural Stagnation -- The Structure of Rural Society: Elites and Subalterns -- Hierarchical Structure of Village Society |
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Stirrings of Subaltern Emancipation: Working Away from the Village, Non-Agricultural Employment, Migration to Urban Areas -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Growth in the Manufacturing Sector: Nationalist Movements, Import-Substitution Industrialisation and a Multi-tiered Labour Market -- Indian Nationalist Movements and the Launch of a Discriminating Protective Tariff -- Introduction of a Discriminating Protective Tariff System -- The Indo-Japanese Trade Negotiations: British Cotton Industry Interests and Nationalist Movements -- The Partial Introduction of Import-Substitution Industrialisation |
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The Cotton Textile Industry: The Development of Import Substitution for a Domestic Mass Market -- The Iron and Steel Industry: Import Substitution at Government Demand -- Other Industries -- The Jute Industry -- Domestic-Market-Orientated Industrialisation and the Road to a Planned Economy -- The Beginnings of a Multi-tiered Labour Market -- Highly Paid Urban-settled Labourers -- Semi-settled Workers from the Rural Cultivator Class -- Workers in the Jute and Bidi Industries from the Agricultural Labourer Classes -- The Three-tiered Labour Market -- Notes |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Chapter 3: The Growth of Small-Scale Enterprises and Changes in Consumption Patterns: A Prototype of Post-Independence Informal Sectors |
| Subject |
Economic development -- India -- History
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Economic development
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India
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mizushima, Tsukasa
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| ISBN |
9781000803396 |
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1000803392 |
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