Beyond Divergence: Rethinking the Economic History of India

Tirthankar Roy

Economic History of Developing Regions, 2012, vol. 27, issue S1, S57-S65

Abstract: The interest of global historians in the non-western world tends to be driven by a desire to explain growing international economic inequality between 1800 and 2000. A preoccupation with the question, when the third world fell behind, results in a neglect of important characteristics of the economic history of the third world itself. A theory of international inequality can explain neither the recent economic resurgence in the economies of Asia and Africa, nor the highly uneven pattern of transformation within the larger nations like India. The paper suggests, with the Indian example, how these issues might be brought back into the discourse.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2012.657458

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