Flourishing branches, wilting core: research in modern Indian economic history

Tirthankar Roy

Australian Economic History Review, 2004, vol. 44, issue 3, 221-240

Abstract: The core theme in modern Indian economic history until recently was economic growth in colonial India and models explaining stylised facts about growth or stagnation. From the 1980s, research moved away from the general toward more specific and local issues, a trend that has allowed new questions to be asked, has approached other fields and introduced a healthy scepticism for overarching models. But it also made macro‐questions somewhat outdated, thereby weakening the link between history and models of economic growth and development. This essay reviews scholarship on new themes and asks how problems of economic growth can be motivated anew.

Date: 2004
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