Prasannan Parthasarathi is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Boston College. His previous publications include The Transition to a Colonial Economy: Weavers, Merchants and Kings in South India, 1720-1800 (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200-1850 (co-edited with Giorgio Riello, 2009).
1. Introduction
Part I. Setting the Stage: Europe and Asia before Divergence: 2. India and the global economy, 1600-1800
3. Political institutions and economic life
Part II. The Divergence of Britain: 4. The European response to Indian cottons
5. State and market: Britain, France, and the Ottoman Empire
6. From cotton to coal
Part III. The Indian Path: 7. Science and technology in India, 1600-1800
8. Industry in early nineteenth-century India
9. Conclusion.
