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Working Papers

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 View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article The Monsoon and the Market for Money in Late-colonial India, Enterprise & Society, Cambridge University Press (2016) (2016)

2014

2. Technology in Colonial India: Three Discourses
   CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE)

2011

3. Consumption of cotton cloth in India, 1795-1940
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers
   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) View citations (3) (2012)

2010

4. Rethinking the origins of British India: state formation and military-fiscal undertakings in an eighteenth century world region
   Economic History Working Papers, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History View citations (1)

2009

5. Book Review: Handicraft History in India
   Working Papers, eSocialSciences
6. 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
   Also in Economic History Working Papers, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History (2009) View citations (1)
   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) (2009)
7. Economic Conditions in Early Modern Bengal: A Contribution to the Divergence Debate
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers
   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) View citations (14) (2010)

1998

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

1996

9. 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 View citations (1)

1993

10. 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) View citations (6) (1996)

1992

11. Growth, Distribution and Demand for Textiles in India
    Working Papers, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research-
12. 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) View citations (1) (1995)

1991

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

Journal Articles

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
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
3. Transfer of Economic Power in Corporate Calcutta, 1950–1970
   Business History Review, 2017, 91, (1), 3-29 View citations (2)

2016

4. 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
5. 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 View citations (1)
6. The Monsoon and the Market for Money in Late-colonial India
   Enterprise & Society, 2016, 17, (2), 324-357
   See also Working Paper The monsoon and the market for money in late-colonial India, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2016) View citations (1) (2016)

2014

7. 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
8. 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
9. Financing the Raj: the City of London and colonial India 1858-1940
   Business History, 2014, 56, (6), 1024-1026
10. Geography or politics? Regional inequality in colonial India
    European Review of Economic History, 2014, 18, (3), 324-348 View citations (6)
11. The Rise and Fall of Indian Economic History 1920-2013
    Economic History of Developing Regions, 2014, 29, (1), 15-41
12. Trading Firms in Colonial India
    Business History Review, 2014, 88, (1), 9-42 View citations (4)

2012

13. CONSUMPTION OF COTTON CLOTH IN INDIA, 1795–1940
    Australian Economic History Review, 2012, 52, (1), 61-84 View citations (3)
    See also Working Paper Consumption of cotton cloth in India, 1795-1940, CEPR Discussion Papers (2011) (2011)
14. 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

2011

15. Indigo and law in colonial India
    Economic History Review, 2011, 64, 60-75 View citations (2)
    Also in Economic History Review, 2011, 64, (s1), 60-75 (2011) View citations (1)
16. 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

2010

17. Economic Conditions in Early Modern Bengal: A Contribution to the Divergence Debate
    The Journal of Economic History, 2010, 70, (1), 179-194 View citations (14)
    See also Working Paper Economic Conditions in Early Modern Bengal: A Contribution to the Divergence Debate, CEPR Discussion Papers (2009) (2009)
18. Stages of capital: law, culture and market governance in late colonial India – By Ritu Birla
    Economic History Review, 2010, 63, (1), 274-276
19. ‘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

2009

20. 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
    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) (2009)

2008

21. Knowledge and divergence from the perspective of early modern India*
    Journal of Global History, 2008, 3, (3), 361-387 View citations (4)
22. 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
23. State, society and market in the aftermath of natural disasters in colonial India
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2008, 45, (2), 261-294 View citations (1)

2007

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

2004

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

2002

27. Acceptance of innovations in early twentieth–century Indian weaving
    Economic History Review, 2002, 55, (3), 507-532 View citations (3)
28. Economic History and Modern India: Redefining the Link
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2002, 16, (3), 109-130 View citations (26)
29. 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
30. Madras handkerchiefs in the interwar period
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2002, 39, (2-3), 285-300

1999

31. Conceiving mobility: Weavers' migrations in pre-colonial and colonial India
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1999, 36, (1), 35-67 View citations (3)
32. Editors' note: Markets in history—Concepts and outcomes of commercialisation in South Asia
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1999, 36, (3), 271-273 View citations (1)

1998

33. Indian Handlooms in the 20th Century
    Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, 1998, 39, (2), 129-150

1997

34. Capitalism and community: A study of the Madurai Sourashtras
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1997, 34, (4), 437-463 View citations (2)

1996

35. A flow of funds model for India and its implications
    Journal of Policy Modeling, 1996, 18, (5), 469-494 View citations (6)
    See also Working Paper A Flow of Funds Model for India and Its Implications, Working Papers (1993) (1993)
36. 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 View citations (1)

1995

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

1994

38. Foreign trade and the artisans in colonial India: A study of leather
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1994, 31, (4), 461-490

1993

39. Money supply and asset choice in inter-war India
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1993, 30, (2), 163-180

1988

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

Books

2016

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

2012

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

2011

4. Economic History of India, 1857-1947
   OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (25)
   Also in OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press (2006) View citations (10)

2010

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

2007

6. 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)