Merchants and Colonialism
Price: 495.00
ISBN:
9780199486687
Publication date:
10/01/2019
Hardback
148 pages
174x111mm
Price: 495.00
ISBN:
9780199486687
Publication date:
10/01/2019
Hardback
148 pages
Amiya Bagchi, Rosinka Chaudhuri
Amiya Kumar Bagchi’s Merchants and Colonialism is a landmark work in economic history and sociology. The author shows us how colonial rule put traders and manufacturers under immense pressure, forcing them to look for survival strategies in a changed economic environment. This resulted in long-term de-industrialization and irreversible damage to traditional modes of production, which had far-reaching economic consequences for India after Independence.
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Amiya Bagchi, Rosinka Chaudhuri
Description
Amiya Kumar Bagchi’s Merchants and Colonialism is a landmark work in economic history and sociology. The author shows us how colonial rule put traders and manufacturers under immense pressure, forcing them to look for survival strategies in a changed economic environment. This resulted in long-term de-industrialization and irreversible damage to traditional modes of production, which had far-reaching economic consequences for India after Independence.
About the Author
Amiya Kumar Bagchi was Professor of Economics at the CSSSC from 1974 to 2001 and its Director from 1988 to 1997.
Amiya Bagchi, Rosinka Chaudhuri
Table of contents
About the Author ix
About the Editors xi
About the Introduction
Writer xiii
General Introduction
to the Series xv
Partha Chatterjee and
Rosinka Chaudhuri
Introduction xxi
Lakshmi Subramanian
Merchants and
Colonialism 1
Amiya Kumar Bagchi
Index 113
Amiya Bagchi, Rosinka Chaudhuri
Description
Amiya Kumar Bagchi’s Merchants and Colonialism is a landmark work in economic history and sociology. The author shows us how colonial rule put traders and manufacturers under immense pressure, forcing them to look for survival strategies in a changed economic environment. This resulted in long-term de-industrialization and irreversible damage to traditional modes of production, which had far-reaching economic consequences for India after Independence.
About the Author
Amiya Kumar Bagchi was Professor of Economics at the CSSSC from 1974 to 2001 and its Director from 1988 to 1997.
Table of contents
About the Author ix
About the Editors xi
About the Introduction
Writer xiii
General Introduction
to the Series xv
Partha Chatterjee and
Rosinka Chaudhuri
Introduction xxi
Lakshmi Subramanian
Merchants and
Colonialism 1
Amiya Kumar Bagchi
Index 113
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