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Working Papers

2025

  1. Editors' note
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library Downloads

2024

  1. Will climate change disrupt tropical development? Lessons from economic history
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library Downloads

2023

  1. India is broken: a people betrayed, independence to today by Ashoka Mody, Standford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2023, xii + 511 pp
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library Downloads
    See also Journal Article India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today by Ashoka Mody, Standford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2023, xii + 511 pp, The Developing Economies, Institute of Developing Economies (2023) Downloads (2023)

2022

  1. The development of the arid tropics: lessons for economic history
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library Downloads
    See also Journal Article The development of the arid tropics: Lessons for economic history, Economic History of Developing Regions, Taylor & Francis Journals (2023) Downloads (2023)
  2. The great retreat: pastoralism in the arid tropics
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library Downloads

2021

  1. Useful & reliable: technological transformation in colonial India
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library Downloads
  2. Water, climate, and economy in India from 1880 to the present
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library Downloads View citations (4)
  3. Why geography matters to the economic history of India
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library Downloads
    See also Journal Article Why geography matters to the economic history of India, Australian Economic History Review, Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand (2021) Downloads View citations (1) (2021)

2020

  1. Reading the economic history of Afghanistan
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library Downloads

2019

  1. Climate and the Economy in India, 1850-2000
    CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE) Downloads
    Also in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2019) Downloads
  2. State capacity and the economic history of colonial India
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library Downloads View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article State Capacity and the Economic History of Colonial India, Australian Economic History Review, Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand (2019) Downloads View citations (1) (2019)

2018

  1. Inequality in colonial India
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library Downloads
  2. Reassessing FERA: examining British firms’ strategic responses to ‘Indianisation’
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library Downloads
    See also Journal Article Reassessing FERA: Examining British firms’ strategic responses to ‘Indianisation’, Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals (2021) Downloads (2021)

2016

  1. The monsoon and the market for money in late-colonial India
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library Downloads View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article The Monsoon and the Market for Money in Late-colonial India, Enterprise & Society, Cambridge University Press (2016) Downloads (2016)

2014

  1. Geography or politics? Regional inequality in colonial India
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library Downloads View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article Geography or politics? Regional inequality in colonial India, European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society (2014) Downloads View citations (6) (2014)
  2. Technology in Colonial India: Three Discourses
    CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE) Downloads

2011

  1. Consumption of cotton cloth in India, 1795-1940
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers Downloads
    See also Journal Article CONSUMPTION OF COTTON CLOTH IN INDIA, 1795–1940, Australian Economic History Review, Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand (2012) Downloads View citations (3) (2012)
  2. Rethinking the origins of British India: state formation and military-fiscal undertakings in an 18th-century world region
    Working Papers, Economic History Society Downloads

2010

  1. Rethinking the origins of British India: state formation and military-fiscal undertakings in an eighteenth century world region
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library Downloads

2009

  1. Book Review: Handicraft History in India
    Working Papers, eSocialSciences Downloads
  2. Did globalisation aid industrial development in colonial India? A study of knowledge transfer in the iron industry
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library Downloads
    Also in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2009) Downloads

    See also Journal Article Did globalisation aid industrial development in colonial India? A study of knowledge transfer in the iron industry, The Indian Economic & Social History Review (2009) Downloads (2009)
  3. Economic Conditions in Early Modern Bengal: A Contribution to the Divergence Debate
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers Downloads
    See also Journal Article Economic Conditions in Early Modern Bengal: A Contribution to the Divergence Debate, The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press (2010) Downloads View citations (17) (2010)

1998

  1. Economic Reforms and the Textile Industry in India
    Working Papers, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research- View citations (3)

1996

  1. Market-resurgence, deregulation, and industrial response: Indian cotton textiles in the 1990s
    ISS Working Papers - General Series, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (ISS), The Hague Downloads View citations (1)

1993

  1. A Flow of Funds Model for India and Its Implications
    Working Papers, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research-
    See also Journal Article A flow of funds model for India and its implications, Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier (1996) Downloads View citations (6) (1996)

1992

  1. Growth, Distribution and Demand for Textiles in India
    Working Papers, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research-
  2. Price Movements in Early Twentieth Century in India
    Working Papers, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research-
    See also Journal Article Price movements in early twentieth-century India, Economic History Review, Economic History Society (1995) Downloads View citations (1) (1995)

1991

  1. Changes in Saving-Rate and its Implications for Growth
    Working Papers, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research- View citations (1)

Journal Articles

2025

  1. Book review: A. R. Venkatachalapathy, Swadeshi Steam: V.O. Chidambaram Pillai and the Battle against the British Maritime Empire
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2025, 62, (2), 274-277 Downloads
  2. County-scale flood risk assessment of properties and associated population in the United States
    Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2025, 121, (3), 2641-2664 Downloads
  3. Development policy and legal persistence: Evidence from India
    Rivista di storia economica, 2025, (1), 95-116 Downloads
  4. Editors’ Note
    Rivista di storia economica, 2025, (1), 3-6 Downloads

2024

  1. A Machine Learning-Based Probabilistic Approach for Irrigation Scheduling
    Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), 2024, 38, (5), 1639-1653 Downloads
    Also in Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), 2024, 38, (14), 5807-5807 (2024) Downloads View citations (1)
  2. Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India. By Sudev Sheth. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 353 pp. Digital Copy $39.99. ISBN: 978-1-00-933021-3
    Business History Review, 2024, 98, (4), 975-977 Downloads
  3. Book review: Suvobrata Sarkar, ed., History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in India
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2024, 61, (3), 423-425 Downloads

2023

  1. Book review: Santosh Kumar Rai, Weaving Hierarchies: Handloom Weavers in Early Twentieth Century United Provinces
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2023, 60, (3), 373-375 Downloads
  2. India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today by Ashoka Mody, Standford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2023, xii + 511 pp
    The Developing Economies, 2023, 61, (4), 345-347 Downloads
    See also Working Paper India is broken: a people betrayed, independence to today by Ashoka Mody, Standford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2023, xii + 511 pp, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2023) Downloads (2023)
  3. The development of the arid tropics: Lessons for economic history
    Economic History of Developing Regions, 2023, 38, (2), 151-172 Downloads
    See also Working Paper The development of the arid tropics: lessons for economic history, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2022) Downloads (2022)

2022

  1. Book review: Peter Robb, Ideas Matter: Debating the Impact of British Rule on India
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2022, 59, (3), 408-411 Downloads
  2. Introduction to the symposium on economic history and India
    Economic History Review, 2022, 75, (2), 371-373 Downloads
  3. Mircea Raianu, Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism Boston Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2021. Pp. 291. Hardcover £31.95. ISBN 9780674984516
    Economic History Review, 2022, 75, (3), 982-984 Downloads

2021

  1. Capitalism, Inequality and Labour in India
    Journal of Development Studies, 2021, 57, (9), 1572-1573 Downloads
  2. Lost Glory: India's Capitalism Story. By Sumit K. Majumdar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xx + 308 pp. Appendices. Hardcover, $44.95. ISBN: 978-0-1996-4199-4
    Business History Review, 2021, 95, (3), 599-601 Downloads
  3. Reassessing FERA: Examining British firms’ strategic responses to ‘Indianisation’
    Business History, 2021, 63, (1), 18-37 Downloads
    See also Working Paper Reassessing FERA: examining British firms’ strategic responses to ‘Indianisation’, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2018) Downloads (2018)
  4. Why geography matters to the economic history of India
    Australian Economic History Review, 2021, 61, (3), 273-289 Downloads View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper Why geography matters to the economic history of India, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2021) Downloads (2021)

2019

  1. Book review: Gagan D. S. Sood, India and the Islamic Heartlands: An Eighteenth-century World of Circulation and Exchange
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2019, 56, (4), 515-517 Downloads
  2. Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India. ByLilly Irani. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. xx + 277 pp. Illustrations, photographs, references, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95; paper, $29.95. ISBN: cloth, 9780691175133; paper, 9780691175140
    Business History Review, 2019, 93, (4), 854-856 Downloads
  3. Migration: Change and Continuity
    Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 2019, 31, (1), 1-4 Downloads
  4. Pim de Zwart and Jan Luiten van Zanden, The origins of globalization: world trade in the making of the global economy, 1500–1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xvi+338. 34 figs. 15 tabs. 9 maps. ISBN 9781108426992 Hbk. £64.99; ISBN 9781108447133 Pbk. £21.99)
    Economic History Review, 2019, 72, (4), 1521-1522 Downloads
  5. State Capacity and the Economic History of Colonial India
    Australian Economic History Review, 2019, 59, (1), 80-102 Downloads View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper State capacity and the economic history of colonial India, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2019) Downloads View citations (1) (2019)

2018

  1. Book Review: Peter Sutoris, Visions of Development: Films Division of India and the Imagination of Progress, 1948–1975
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2018, 55, (3), 456-458 Downloads
  2. Book review: Amit Kumar Gupta, Crises and Creativities: Middle Class Bhadralok in Bengal c. 1939–52, Parimal Ghosh, What Happened to the Bhadralok and Tanika Sarkar and Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, eds., Calcutta: The Stormy Decades
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2018, 55, (2), 302-306 Downloads

2017

  1. Bondage: labor and rights in Eurasia from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries By Alessandro Stanziani. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2014. Pp. x + 258. Hardback £75.00, ISBN 978-1-78238-250-8; paperback £22.00, ISBN 978-1-78533-035-3
    Journal of Global History, 2017, 12, (1), 157-159 Downloads
  2. Book Review: C.J. Fuller and Haripriya Narasimhan, Tamil Brahmans: The Making of a Middle-class Caste
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2017, 54, (2), 290-292 Downloads
  3. Shireen Moosvi, The economy of the Mughal Empire c. 1595. A statistical study (2nd edn. New Delhi: Oxford University Press: 2015. Pp. xii + 476. ISBN 9780199450541 Pbk. £37.99)
    Economic History Review, 2017, 70, (1), 349-350 Downloads
  4. The Chinese and Indian Corporate Economies: A Comparative History of Their Search for Economic Renaissance and Globalization. By Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017. xviii + 471 pp. Map, figures, tables, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $215.00 ISBN: 978-1-138-92988-3
    Business History Review, 2017, 91, (3), 598-601 Downloads View citations (1)
  5. The Origins of Import Substituting Industrialization in India
    Economic History of Developing Regions, 2017, 32, (1), 71-95 Downloads View citations (5)
  6. Transfer of Economic Power in Corporate Calcutta, 1950–1970
    Business History Review, 2017, 91, (1), 3-29 Downloads View citations (2)

2016

  1. Book Review: Richard B. Allen, European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2016, 53, (2), 285-287 Downloads
  2. Roman Studer. The Great Divergence Reconsidered. Europe, India, and the Rise to Global Economic Power. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xii + 231 pp. ISBN 9781107020542, $99.00 (cloth)
    Enterprise & Society, 2016, 17, (2), 439-441 Downloads
  3. THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF INDIA (1858-1947)*
    Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 2016, 34, (2), 209-236 Downloads View citations (1)
  4. The Monsoon and the Market for Money in Late-colonial India
    Enterprise & Society, 2016, 17, (2), 324-357 Downloads
    See also Working Paper The monsoon and the market for money in late-colonial India, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2016) Downloads View citations (1) (2016)

2015

  1. Book Review: NITIN SINHA, Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India: Bihar, 1760s–1880s
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2015, 52, (1), 114-115 Downloads

2014

  1. An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions. ByJean Drèze andAmartya Sen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. xiv + 434 pp. Maps, figures, tables, references, appendices, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-16079-5
    Business History Review, 2014, 88, (2), 406-409 Downloads
  2. B. R. Tomlinson, The economy of modern India from 1860 to the twenty-first century ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xviii + 250. 6 figs. 13 maps. 30 tabs. ISBN 9781107605473 Pbk. £19.99)
    Economic History Review, 2014, 67, (3), 882-883 Downloads
  3. Book Review: David Arnold, Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India’s Modernity
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2014, 51, (3), 392-394 Downloads
  4. Book Review: The Trading World of the Indian Ocean, 1500–1800
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2014, 51, (1), 140-142 Downloads
  5. Financing the Raj: the City of London and colonial India 1858-1940
    Business History, 2014, 56, (6), 1024-1026 Downloads
  6. Geography or politics? Regional inequality in colonial India
    European Review of Economic History, 2014, 18, (3), 324-348 Downloads View citations (6)
    See also Working Paper Geography or politics? Regional inequality in colonial India, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2014) Downloads View citations (4) (2014)
  7. The Rise and Fall of Indian Economic History 1920-2013
    Economic History of Developing Regions, 2014, 29, (1), 15-41 Downloads
  8. Trading Firms in Colonial India
    Business History Review, 2014, 88, (1), 9-42 Downloads View citations (4)

2012

  1. Beyond Divergence: Rethinking the Economic History of India
    Economic History of Developing Regions, 2012, 27, (S1), S57-S65 Downloads
  2. Book Review: Deepak Kumar, Vinita Damodaran, and Rohan D’Souza, eds., The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia and Bhangya Bhukya, Subjugated Nomads: The Lambadas under the Rule of the Nizams
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2012, 49, (4), 598-601 Downloads
  3. Book Review: Workers of the World: Essays towards a Global Labour History
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2012, 49, (2), 286-290 Downloads
  4. CONSUMPTION OF COTTON CLOTH IN INDIA, 1795–1940
    Australian Economic History Review, 2012, 52, (1), 61-84 Downloads View citations (3)
    See also Working Paper Consumption of cotton cloth in India, 1795-1940, CEPR Discussion Papers (2011) Downloads (2011)
  5. Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600–1850. By Prasannan Parthasrathi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xviii, 365. $90.00, hardcover
    The Journal of Economic History, 2012, 72, (3), 851-853 Downloads

2011

  1. Indigo and law in colonial India
    Economic History Review, 2011, 64, 60-75 Downloads View citations (2)
    Also in Economic History Review, 2011, 64, (s1), 60-75 (2011) Downloads View citations (1)
  2. Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs: Indian Business in the Colonial Era. ByClaude Markovits. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. x + 292 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-0-230-20598-7
    Business History Review, 2011, 85, (4), 825-828 Downloads

2010

  1. Economic Conditions in Early Modern Bengal: A Contribution to the Divergence Debate
    The Journal of Economic History, 2010, 70, (1), 179-194 Downloads View citations (17)
    See also Working Paper Economic Conditions in Early Modern Bengal: A Contribution to the Divergence Debate, CEPR Discussion Papers (2009) Downloads (2009)
  2. Stages of capital: law, culture and market governance in late colonial India – By Ritu Birla
    Economic History Review, 2010, 63, (1), 274-276 Downloads
  3. ‘THE LAW OF STORMS’: EUROPEAN AND INDIGENOUS RESPONSES TO NATURAL DISASTERS IN COLONIAL INDIA, c. 1800–1850
    Australian Economic History Review, 2010, 50, (1), 6-22 Downloads

2009

  1. Did globalisation aid industrial development in colonial India? A study of knowledge transfer in the iron industry
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2009, 46, (4), 579-613 Downloads
    See also Working Paper Did globalisation aid industrial development in colonial India? A study of knowledge transfer in the iron industry, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2009) Downloads (2009)

2008

  1. Knowledge and divergence from the perspective of early modern India*
    Journal of Global History, 2008, 3, (3), 361-387 Downloads View citations (5)
  2. Relocating modern science: circulation and the construction of knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650–1900 By Kapil Raj. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. xiv + 285. Hardback £50, ISBN 9780230507081
    Journal of Global History, 2008, 3, (1), 129-131 Downloads
  3. State, society and market in the aftermath of natural disasters in colonial India
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2008, 45, (2), 261-294 Downloads View citations (1)

2007

  1. A delayed revolution: environment and agrarian change in India
    Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2007, 23, (2), 239-250 Downloads View citations (5)
  2. GLOBALISATION, FACTOR PRICES, AND POVERTY IN COLONIAL INDIA
    Australian Economic History Review, 2007, 47, (1), 73-94 Downloads View citations (6)

2004

  1. Flourishing branches, wilting core: research in modern Indian economic history
    Australian Economic History Review, 2004, 44, (3), 221-240 Downloads View citations (1)

2003

  1. Book Reviews: MUSHIRUL HASAN and NARIAKI NAKAZATO, eds, The Unfinished Agenda. Nation- building in South Asia, New Delhi, Manohar, 2001, pp. 536
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2003, 40, (2), 242-245 Downloads
  2. Book Reviews: RAJEN SAIKIA, Social and Economic History of Assam, 1853-1921, Manohar, New Delhi, 2000, pp. 258
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2003, 40, (1), 113-114 Downloads

2002

  1. Acceptance of innovations in early twentieth–century Indian weaving
    Economic History Review, 2002, 55, (3), 507-532 Downloads View citations (3)
  2. Book Reviews: S. SIVASUBRAMONIAN, The National Income of India in the Twentieth Century, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 655
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2002, 39, (1), 113-115 Downloads
  3. Economic History and Modern India: Redefining the Link
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2002, 16, (3), 109-130 Downloads View citations (26)
  4. Fractured Modernity: Making of a Middle Class in Colonial North India. By Sanjay Joshi. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001. xiv + 209 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-195-64562-6
    Business History Review, 2002, 76, (3), 651-653 Downloads
  5. Madras handkerchiefs in the interwar period
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2002, 39, (2-3), 285-300 Downloads

2001

  1. Book Reviews: PHILIPPE CADÈNE and DENIS VIDAL, eds, Webs of Trade: Dynamics of Business Communities in Western India, New Delhi, Manohar, 1997, pp. 196
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2001, 38, (4), 473-474 Downloads

2000

  1. Book Reviews: MEENA BHARGAVA, State, Society and Ecology: Gorakhpur in Transition,1750-1830, Delhi, Manohar, 1999,pp. 279
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2000, 37, (4), 490-491 Downloads

1999

  1. Book Reviews: ARUN BANERJI, Finances in the Early Raj: Investments and the External Sector, New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1995, 338 pp
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1999, 36, (3), 389-391 Downloads
  2. Book Reviews: DWIJENDRA TRIPATHI, Historical Roots of Industrial Entrepreneurship in India and Japan: A Comparative Interpretation, Manohar, New Delhi, 1997, pp. 162
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1999, 36, (4), 504-505 Downloads
  3. Book Reviews: Peter Robb, ed., Meanings of Agriculture, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 389
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1999, 36, (2), 266-268 Downloads
  4. Conceiving mobility: Weavers' migrations in pre-colonial and colonial India
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1999, 36, (1), 35-67 Downloads View citations (3)
  5. Editors' note: Markets in history—Concepts and outcomes of commercialisation in South Asia
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1999, 36, (3), 271-273 Downloads View citations (1)

1998

  1. Book Reviews: G. BALACHANDRAN, John Bullion's Empire: Britain's Gold Problem and India Between the Wars, Curzon Press, Richmond, pp. xii + 252, 1996
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1998, 35, (3), 337-339 Downloads
  2. Book Reviews: HARISH C. SHARMA, Artisans of the Punjab: A Study of Social Change in Historical Perspective 1849-1947, Manohar Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 1996, pp. 167
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1998, 35, (3), 352-353 Downloads
  3. Indian Handlooms in the 20th Century
    Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, 1998, 39, (2), 129-150 Downloads

1997

  1. Book Reviews: JACK GOODY, The East in the West, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, x + 295 pp
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1997, 34, (3), 387-389 Downloads
  2. Book Reviews: JAN BREMAN, Footloose Labour, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, x + 278 pp
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1997, 34, (3), 377-379 Downloads
  3. Capitalism and community: A study of the Madurai Sourashtras
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1997, 34, (4), 437-463 Downloads View citations (2)

1996

  1. A flow of funds model for India and its implications
    Journal of Policy Modeling, 1996, 18, (5), 469-494 Downloads View citations (6)
    See also Working Paper A Flow of Funds Model for India and Its Implications, Working Papers (1993) (1993)
  2. Book Reviews: WILLEM VAN SCHENDEL, (ed), Francis Buchanan in Southeast Bengal (1798), Manohar, 1992, pp. xxx + 209, Rs 300
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1996, 33, (4), 495-495 Downloads
  3. The role of the state in initiating development: A study of interwar South and Southeast Asia
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1996, 33, (4), 373-401 Downloads View citations (1)

1995

  1. Price movements in early twentieth-century India
    Economic History Review, 1995, 48, (1), 118-133 Downloads View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper Price Movements in Early Twentieth Century in India, Working Papers (1992) (1992)

1994

  1. Book Reviews: B.R. TOMLINSON, The Economy of Modern India, 1860-1970, Cambridge University Press, Foundation Books, New Delhi, 1993,235 pp., Rs. 325
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1994, 31, (2), 257-259 Downloads
  2. Book Reviews: H. VAN WERSCH, Bombay Textile Strike 1982-83, Oxford University Press, Bombay, 1992, xxiv + 463, Rs. 450
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1994, 31, (1), 114-115 Downloads
  3. Book Reviews: S.R.B. LEADBEATER, The Politics of Textiles: The Indian Cotton-Mill Industry and the Legacy of Swadeshi, 1900-1985, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1993, 312 pp., Rs. 285
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1994, 31, (3), 397-398 Downloads
  4. Book Reviews: SUGATA BOSE, Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital. Rural Bengal since 1770 (The New Cambridge History of India), Foundation Books, Delhi, 1993, xvi + 203 pp., Rs 275
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1994, 31, (4), 531-533 Downloads
  5. Foreign trade and the artisans in colonial India: A study of leather
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1994, 31, (4), 461-490 Downloads

1993

  1. Book Reviews: GEORGE ROSEN, Contrasting Styles of Industrial Reform: China and India in the 1980s, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1992, xiii + 168 pp
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1993, 30, (4), 496-498 Downloads
  2. Money supply and asset choice in inter-war India
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1993, 30, (2), 163-180 Downloads

1991

  1. Book Reviews: MANJIT SINGH, The Political Economy of Unorganised Industry: A Study of the Labour Process, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1990, 236 pp., Rs. 190
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1991, 28, (4), 473-474 Downloads
  2. Book Reviews: NASIR TYABJI, The Small Industries Policy in India, Oxford University Press, Calcutta, 1989, 223 pp., Rs. 200
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1991, 28, (2), 223-224 Downloads

1988

  1. Size and structure of handloom weaving in the mid-thirties
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1988, 25, (1), 1-24 Downloads View citations (1)

Books

2025

  1. Origins of Colonialism
    Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press
    Also in Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press (2025)

2024

  1. Kerala, 1956 to the Present
    Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press
    Also in Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press (2024)

2023

  1. The Reserve Bank of India
    Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press

2022

  1. Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy
    University of Chicago Press Economics Books, University of Chicago Press View citations (1)

2019

  1. How British Rule Changed India’s Economy
    Palgrave Studies in Economic History, Palgrave Macmillan View citations (1)

2018

  1. A Business History of India
    Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (6)
    Also in Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press (2018) View citations (6)

2017

  1. The Economy of South Asia
    Palgrave Studies in Economic History, Palgrave Macmillan View citations (2)

2016

  1. Law and the Economy in Colonial India
    University of Chicago Press Economics Books, University of Chicago Press View citations (13)

2012

  1. India in the World Economy
    Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (9)
    Also in Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press (2012) View citations (9)
  2. Natural Disasters and Indian History: Oxford India Short Introductions
    OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (4)

2011

  1. Economic History of India, 1857-1947
    OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (26)
    Also in OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press (2006) View citations (10)

2010

  1. Company of Kinsmen: Enterprise and Community in South Asian History 1700-1940
    OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (2)

2007

  1. Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India
    Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (2)
    Also in Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press (1999) View citations (21)

Edited books

2010

  1. Towards a History of Consumption in South Asia
    OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (2)

Chapters

2019

  1. A Different Story? The Princely States
    Palgrave Macmillan
  2. A Poor State
    Palgrave Macmillan
  3. Conclusion
    Palgrave Macmillan
  4. End of Famine
    Palgrave Macmillan
  5. Introduction
    Palgrave Macmillan
  6. The Business of the Cities
    Palgrave Macmillan View citations (1)
  7. The Making of British India
    Palgrave Macmillan
  8. Unyielding Land
    Palgrave Macmillan

2018

  1. South Asia
    Palgrave Macmillan

2017

  1. Business
    Palgrave Macmillan
  2. Defining the Region: Geography and History
    Palgrave Macmillan
  3. Growth and Development
    Palgrave Macmillan View citations (7)
  4. Introduction
    Palgrave Macmillan
  5. Land Reforms
    Palgrave Macmillan
  6. Migration
    Palgrave Macmillan
  7. Summary and Conclusion
    Palgrave Macmillan
  8. The Green Revolution
    Palgrave Macmillan View citations (1)
  9. The State and the Economy I: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh
    Palgrave Macmillan
  10. The State and the Economy II: Sri Lanka and Nepal
    Palgrave Macmillan
  11. Trade and Industry I: India
    Palgrave Macmillan
  12. Trade and Industry II: Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal
    Palgrave Macmillan

2016

  1. States and Development: Early Modern India, China, and the Great Divergence
    Springer View citations (5)
 
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