Shaping India: Economic Change in Historical Perspective - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415678048 ISBN 13: 9780415678049

Publisher: Routledge India, 2011

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge India
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0415678048
• ISBN 13: 9780415678049
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 380
• Editor: Narayana D., Mahadevan Raman