Geography or politics? Regional inequality in colonial India

Tirthankar Roy

European Review of Economic History, 2014, vol. 18, issue 3, 324-348

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.

Date: 2014
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