Introduction -- Transition to Colonialism: 1707 -- 1857 -- Growth and structural change: 1857 -- 1947 -- Agriculture -- The commons -- Small-scale industry -- Large-scale industry -- Plantations, mines, banking -- Infrastructure -- Fiscal and monetary systems -- Population and labour -- Economic change in India: 1950 -- 2010
Summary
This comprehensive and updated textbook on the economic history of colonial India presents a lucid account of the factors that shaped economic change in colonial India in the late-19th and early-20th centuries