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200 10$aHow British Rule Changed India?s Economy $eThe Paradox of the Raj /$fby Tirthankar Roy
205   $a1st ed. 2019.
210  1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Pivot,$d2019.
215   $a1 online resource (167 pages)
225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Economic History,$x2662-6500
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327   $aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The making of British India -- Chapter 3: The business of the cities -- Chapter 4: Unyielding land -- Chapter 5: A poor state -- Chapter 6: End of famine -- Chapter 7: A different story? The princely states -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.
330   $aThis Palgrave Pivot revisits the topic of how British colonialism moulded work and life in India and what kind of legacy it left behind. Did British rule lead to India?s impoverishment, economic disruption and famine? Under British rule, evidence suggests there were beneficial improvements, with an eventual rise in life expectancy and an increase in wealth for some sectors of the population and economy, notably for much business and industry. Yet many poor people suffered badly, with agricultural stagnation and an underfunded government who were too small to effect general improvements. In this book Roy explains the paradoxical combination of wealth and poverty, looking at both sides of nineteenth century capitalism. Between 1850 and 1930, India was engaged in a globalization process not unlike the one it has seen since the 1990s. The difference between these two times is that much of the region was under British colonial rule during the first episode, while it was an independent nation state during the second. Roy's narrative has a contemporary relevance for emerging economies, where again globalization has unleashed extraordinary levels of capitalistic energy while leaving many livelihoods poor, stagnant, and discontented. .
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606   $aEconomic history
606   $aImperialism
606   $aAsia$xEconomic conditions
606   $aAgriculture$xEconomic aspects
606   $aDevelopment economics
606   $aEconomic policy
606   $aEconomic History
606   $aImperialism and Colonialism
606   $aAsian Economics
606   $aAgricultural Economics
606   $aDevelopment Economics
606   $aEconomic Policy
615  0$aEconomic history.
615  0$aImperialism.
615  0$aAsia$xEconomic conditions.
615  0$aAgriculture$xEconomic aspects.
615  0$aDevelopment economics.
615  0$aEconomic policy.
615 14$aEconomic History.
615 24$aImperialism and Colonialism.
615 24$aAsian Economics.
615 24$aAgricultural Economics.
615 24$aDevelopment Economics.
615 24$aEconomic Policy.
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