Unyielding Land

Tirthankar Roy ()
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Tirthankar Roy: London School of Economics

Chapter Chapter 4 in How British Rule Changed India’s Economy, 2019, pp 81-98 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Although business did well in colonial India, agriculture stayed poor. Cultivation of land engaged more than two-thirds of the employed population. Cultivated land increased by 50% between 1860 and 1920. The opportunity to trade encouraged the trend. That commercialization made many merchants rich. But it made little difference to the peasants and landlords. As population increased, and few people could find good jobs outside the village, the poverty of the village was shared by more people. Why did the village produce more and yet stay poor?

Keywords: Agriculture in India; Railways; Commercialization of agriculture in India; Landlords; Moneylenders (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-17708-9_4

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