Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: tirthankar roy

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  • AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF INDIA 1707–1857
    TIRTHANKAR ROY
    This new edition of An Economic History of Early Modern India extends the timespan of the analysis to incorporate further research. This allows for a more detailed discussion of the rise of the British Empire in South Asia and gives a fuller context for the historiography. In the years between the death of the emperor Aurangzeb (1707) and the Great Rebellion (1857), the Mughal ...

    $1,120.00

  • THE CRAFTS AND CAPITALISM
    TIRTHANKAR ROY
    This book presents a comprehensive history of handloom weaving industry in India to challenge and revise the view that competition from machine-produced textiles destroyed the country’s handicrafts as claimed by historians until recently. It shows that skill-intensive handmade textiles survived the competition on a large scale, and that handmade goods and high-quality manual la...

    $1,200.00

  • A NEW ECONOMIC HISTORY OF COLONIAL INDIA
    LATIKA CHAUDHARY, BISHNUPRIYA GUPTA, TIRTHANKAR ROY AND ANAND V. SWAMY
    A New Economic History of Colonial India provides a new perspective on Indian economic history. Using economic theory and quantitative methods, it shows how the discipline is being redefined and how new scholarship on India is beginning to embrace and make use of concepts from the larger field of global economic history and economics. The book discusses the impact of property r...

    $1,340.00

  • RETHINKING ECONOMIC CHANGE IN INDIA
    TIRTHANKAR ROY
    As author of the hugely influential The Economic History of India 1857-1947, Tirthankar Roy has established himself as the leading contemporary economic historian of India. Here, Roy turns his attention to labour and livelihood and the nature of economic change in the Subcontinent. This book covers: economic history of modern India rural labour labour-intensive industrializatio...

    $1,320.00

  • LAW AND THE ECONOMY IN A YOUNG DEMOCRACY
    TIRTHANKAR ROY / ANAND V. SWAMY
    An essential history of India's economic growth since 1947, including the legal reforms that have shaped the country in the shadow of colonial rule. Economists have long lamented how the inefficiency of India's legal system undermines the country’s economic capacity. How has this come to be? The prevailing explanation is that the postcolonial legal system is understaffed and un...

    $856.25

  • LAW AND THE ECONOMY IN COLONIAL INDIA
    TIRTHANKAR ROY / ANAND V. SWAMY
    Since the economic reforms of the 1990s, India’s economy has grown rapidly. To sustain growth and foreign investment over the long run requires a well-developed legal infrastructure for conducting business, including cheap and reliable contract enforcement and secure property rights. But it’s widely acknowledged that India’s legal infrastructure is in urgent need of reform, pla...

    $838.77