India in the World Economy - From Antiquity to the Present

Informationen zum Autor Tirthankar Roy is a Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His publications include The Economic History of India 1857-1947, Third Edition (2011), Towards a History of Consumption in South Asia, co-edited with Douglas Haynes, Abigail McGowan, and Haruka Yanagisawa (2010), Company of Kinsmen: Enterprise and Community in South Asian History 1700-1940 (2010), and Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India (1999). Klappentext This enthralling book offers a new approach to Indian economic history, placing trade and mercantile activity in the region within a global framework. Zusammenfassung In a journey spanning 2!000 years! this book describes the ties of trade! migration and investment between India and the rest of the world! showing how changing patterns of globalisation reverberated on economic policy! politics and political ideology within India. A global history written on India's terms! this book marks a new approach to the study of Indian history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction: India and global history; 2. Ports and hinterlands to 1200; 3. Receding land frontiers, 1200-1700; 4. The Indian Ocean trade, 1500-1800; 5. Trade, migration, and investment, 1800-50; 6. Trade, migration, and investment, 1850-1920; 7. Colonialism and development, 1860-1920; 8. Depression and decolonization, 1920-50; 9. From trade to aid, 1950-80; 10. Return to market, 1980-2010; 11 Conclusion: A new India?

Product details

• Authors: Tirthankar Roy, Tirthankar (London School of Economics and Po Roy, Tirthankar (London School of Economics and Political Science) Roy, Roy Tirthankar
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.06.2012
• EAN: 9781107009103
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00910-3
• No. of pages: 298
• Series: New Approaches to Asian Histor; New Approaches to Asian Histor; New Approaches to Asian History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous