Geography or politics? Regional inequality in colonial India

Tirthankar Roy

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Abstract: Explaining regional inequality in the nineteenth-century world forms a major preoccupation of global history. A big country like India, being composed of regions that differed in geographical and political characteristics, raises a parallel set of issues to those debated in global economic history. With a new dataset, the paper attempts to tackle these issues, and finds evidence to suggest that regional differences, and divergence, were significantly influenced by geographical conditions.

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Date: 2014-08-01
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Published in European Review of Economic History, 1, August, 2014, 18(3), pp. 324-348. ISSN: 1361-4916

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