Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 159 pages)
ISBN:
9783030177089
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in Economic History
Content:
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Abstract -- The Paradox of the Raj -- Is the Paradox Explained? -- The Creation of British India -- Net Results -- The Raj's Success -- The Raj's Failure -- The Story in a Nutshell and How It Relates to World History -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 2 The Making of British India -- Abstract -- The Economy of the Inland -- The Rise of the Seaboard -- The Rise of the Company State -- Why Did Trade Lead to an Empire? -- Becoming a Government -- New Trades -- Shifts in Capital -- The Mutiny and Its Aftermath -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 3 The Business of the Cities -- Abstract -- Trade -- Finance -- Factories -- 'Inputs' into Factories: Labour, Capital, Management, and Technology -- Business and Public Good -- Artisans -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 4 Unyielding Land -- Abstract -- Growth of Trade -- The Regions -- Peasants and Landlords -- The Wage-Labourer -- Moneylenders -- The Colonist Model of Poverty: The Evil Lender -- Another Theory: Limited Resource and High Risk -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 5 A Poor State -- Abstract -- What Made a Colonial Government Colonial? -- Funding the State -- Drain: A Word Posing as a Theory -- Not Enough Capital -- The Currency Policy -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6 End of Famine -- Abstract -- Population Growth -- Public Health -- End of Famines -- High Birth Rate and the Status of Women in India -- The Bengal Famine -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 7 A Different Story? The Princely States -- Abstract -- What Do We Know? -- British India and the Princely States Compared -- The Pattern of Economic Change -- Did Independence Matter? -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 8 Conclusion -- Abstract -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030177072
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Roy, Tirthankar, 1960 - How British rule changed India's economy Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 ISBN 9783030177072
Language:
English
Keywords:
Britisch-Indien
;
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
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