Author: Johnson, Gordon ; editor:
Title: Review of the Cambridge Economic History of India and Beyond
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (1985). orig.wrappers. 24x15cm, (379) pp. This is 'Modern Asian Studies', vol.19, pt. 3 (July 1985), completely devoted to this collection of papers.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Cover title. Pagination runs 353-732. Consists of papers presented at a conference on Indian economic and social history held in Cambridge in April 1984. Contents: Irfan Habib "Studying a Colonial Economy - Without Perceiving Colonialism"; Dharma Kumar "The Dangers of Manichaeism"; Burton Stein "State Formation & Economy Reconsidered"; Ashin Das Gupta "Indian Merchants & the Western Indian Ocean: The Early 17th Century"; Amiya Kumar Bagchi "Transition from Indian to British Indian Systems of Money & Banking 1800-1850"; Neil Charlesworth "The Problem of Government Finance in British India: Taxation, Borrowing & the Allocation of Resources in the Inter-War Period"; Shri Prakash "Models of Peasant Differentiation & Aspects of Agrarian Economy in Colonial India"; Crispin N. Bates "Regional Dependence & Rural Development in Central India: The Pivotal Role of Migrant Labour"; Colin Simmons "De-industrialization: Industrialization & the Indian Economy, ca. 1850-1947"; B.R. Tomlinson "Writing History Sideways: Lessons for Indian Economic Historians from Meiji Japan"; etc.

Keywords: Indian Economic History, India South Asia, Colonial Economy, British Raj, Colonialism Colony, Great Britain, South Asia, Historiography, Economics