Shaping India (eBook, ePUB)

Economic Change in Historical Perspective
Redaktion: Narayana, D.; Mahadevan, Raman

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a benchmark, cross-disciplinary study that straddles the colonial and post-colonial periods, the 'new' and 'old' India, seeking to capture the long-term dynamics of growth and development across sectors in India. A notable and distinctive feature of this volume is its focus on the regional dimension.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000084047
• Artikelnr.: 60583164

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations
List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface
Introduction
Paradox of Development/Rising Growth and Disparity/Decline of Agriculture/Poverty Reduction/History and
Part I Land and Agriculture
1. Evolution of Land Rights in India/S. Neelakantan
2. Structural Changes in Land Distribution and Their Implications for Improving Access to Land/K. N. Nair and Arindam Banerjee
3. Changing Agrarian Structure in India: Reflections on Pre
independence Ideology and Post
independence Reality/A. Vaidyanathan
4. Population Pressure and Labour Intensification: An Indian Historical Perspective/N. Krishnaji
5. Institutional Strangleholds: Agricultural Science and the State in India/Rajeswari S. Raina
Part II Entrepreneurship and Industry
6. Revisiting Indian Capitalists in Colonial India: Some Critical Reflections/Raman Mahadevan
7. From Merchants to Multi
national Enterprises: European Trading Firms in South India's Plantation Sector/Tharian George K.
8. Fiat or Trust? A Story of Indian Banking (1857
2007) with a Regional Perspective/D. Narayana
9. Six Decades of Industrial Development: Growth of the Manufacturing Sector in India from the 1940s/C. P. Chandrasekhar
Part III Demographic Trends
10. Fertility in India since Independence: An Overview/K. Srinivasan
11. Mortality Trends and Patterns in India: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives/K. Navaneetham and C. S. Krishnakumar
12. A Long Haul: Revisiting International Migration from India during the 19th and 20th Centuries/S. Irudaya Rajan and Prabhat Kumar
Part IV A Critical Theoretical Perspective
13. Pathways to India's Economic Past/K. T. Rammohan
About the Editors
Notes on Contributors
Index.