Precolonial Underdevelopment

Pervez Tahir ()
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Chapter Chapter 6 in Joan Robinson in Princely India, 2022, pp 57-76 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The larger part of colonial India, as noted in the earlier chapters, was governed directly by the British, but a significant part was ruled by the Indian princes in numerous quasi-autonomous states. Joan Robinson was in the Princely India for about two years in the latter half of the 1920s. In 1927–1928, she was part of the process of preparing the basis for the economic part of the case for the princely states of India in connection with an official committee constituted to rethink their fiscal and political relations with British India. This study was included in a publication, The British Crown and the Indian States, in 1929. In providing some general considerations on the economy of India under the British in an historical perspective, the study touched on the key issues of underdevelopment and development that have interested the grand theorists for a long time and which continue to baffle their modern-day descendants and opponents alike.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-10905-8_6

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