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Traditional industry in the economy of colonial India
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ISBN: 0521650127 0511017480 0521033055 0511497423 0511052014 1280153806 0511310099 0511117507 0511150253 1107116732 9780511017483 9780511117503 9780511052019 9780521650120 9786610153800 6610153809 9780511497421 9780521033053 9781107116733 9780511150258 9780511310096 9781280153808 Year: 1999 Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press,

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The majority of workers in South Asia are employed in industries that rely on manual labour and craft skills. Some of these industries have existed for centuries and survived great changes in consumption and technology over the last 150 years. In earlier studies, historians of the region focused on mechanized rather than craft industries, arguing that traditional manufacturing was destroyed or devitalized during the colonial period, and that 'modern' industry is substantially different. Exploring new material from research into five traditional industries, Tirthankar Roy's book contests these notions, demonstrating that while traditional industry did evolve during the Industrial Revolution, these transformations had a positive rather than destructive effect on manufacturing generally. In fact, the book suggests, the major industries in post-independence India were shaped by such transformations. Tirthankar Roy's book offers penetrating insights into India's economic and social history.

Economic Policy Reforms and the Indian Economy
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ISBN: 1283150778 9786613150776 0226454541 9780226454542 0226454525 9780226454528 Year: 2011 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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India is the second most populous country in the world and also one of the poorest. From the late 1940s to 1980, India's per capita income grew at an average annual rate of only two percent. Expansionist economic reforms during the 1980s boosted economic growth but also unfortunately resulted in high inflation and a balance of payments crisis. As a consequence, in 1991 the government announced sweeping new changes in economic policies. Economic Policy Reforms and the Indian Economy evaluates the effects of those changes and identifies areas of the Indian economy still in urgent need of reform. After an overview of Indian economic policies and development since independence, papers focus on the country's fiscal situation, the environment for private economic activity, education, the reservation of certain activities for small-scale industry, and determinants of differentials in rates of growth across the different Indian states. Contributors include respected academic specialists on India and policy reform, high-level Indian administrators, and present and past policymakers.

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