Haruka Yanagisawa

Indian Economic Growth in Historical Perspective

The Roots of Development
Herausgeber: Mizushima, Tsukasa

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the roots of rapid economic growth of India in recent decades, by exploring the late colonial period. This book by the late Haruka Yanagisawa, will be of interest to researchers in social&economic history, sociology, anthropology& economies of S. Asia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781032377216
• ISBN-10: 1032377216
• Artikelnr.: 65611891

Autorenporträt

The late Haruka Yanagisawa, who passed away in 2015, was a Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo, Japan. He was much loved and respected for his kindness and academic commitment. His publications include A Century of Change: Caste and Irrigated Lands in Tamilnadu 1860s-1970s (1996), Towards a History of Consumption in South Asia (co-editor, 2010), Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India: Japanese Perspectives (co-editor, 1996, reprint: 2016), Community, Commons and Natural Resource Management in Asia (editor, 2015). His articles have been published in Indian Economic and Social History Review, Conservation and Society and Review of Agrarian Studies. He has also published many books and articles in Japanese.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: In Search of the Roots of Contemporary Economic Growth in
India PART I: Stirrings of Economic Development: Moves after World War I
1. Agriculture in the Great Depression: Agricultural Production and Changes
in Rural Society; 2. Growth in the Manufacturing Sector: Nationalist
Movements, Import Substitution Industrialisation and a Multi-Tiered Labour
Market; 3. The Growth of Small-Scale Enterprises and Changes in Consumption
Patterns: A Prototype of Post-Independence Informal Sectors Part II: The
Economic Development In Independent India: The Formation of a Foundation
4. State-Led Import-Substitution Industrialisation: Forming the Foundation
for Further Economic Development; 5. Agrarian Development after
Independence; 6. Changes in Rural Society, the Development of the Rural
Economy and the Growth of Rural Markets Part III: Accelerated Growth and
the Structure of the Indian Economy and Society 7. The Growth of
Small-Scale and Informal-Sector Industries and the Production of Low-Cost
Goods; 8. The Growth of the Service Sector and Socio-Economic Changes in
Rural Society; 9. A Growing Connection between Rural Society and the Urban
Informal Economy; 10. Economic Reforms and the Development of the
Large-Scale Formal Sector; 11. The Structure of Indian Society and Economic
Growth; Conclusion: Towards Further Development