India and the World Economy 1850-1950 - Debates in Indian History and Society

Author: G BalachandranEditor(s): G BalachandranPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 2003Language: EnglishPages: 320ISBN/UPC (if available): 019 5659821 DescriptionThis collection of essays by leading scholars presents major debates on the subject of India’s engagement with the world economy, and the ways in which it was transformed and deepened during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The intense questionings that this process stimulated shaped the Indian intelligentsia’s critique of British rule. It also influenced the historiography of colonialism and India’s economic polices after independence.In this, the second volume in the Debates in Indian history and society series, two contexts to this engagement are explored-India’s subordinate colonial status, and the creation and ordering of the set of markets, institutions, relations, and ideas that constituted the world economy. Contemporary and historical analyses have tended to privilege the former. But as G Balachandran argues in