Rethinking the origins of British India: state formation and military-fiscal undertakings in an 18th-century world region

Tirthankar Roy ()
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Tirthankar Roy: London School of Economics

No 11001, Working Papers from Economic History Society

Abstract: " The paper discusses the rise of the East India Company in the contested political world of eighteenth century India, with reference to the manner in which economic power was deployed to enhance military power. It is shown that there was only one successful model of ‘military-fiscal’ strategy in this time, the one that the Company adopted. It is further argued that fiscal capacity and institutional choices jointly contributed to the success. The Company’s choices, however, cannot be understood as a transplantation of European ideas into India. Fiscal capacity and institutional choices were bounded by local conditions, the strategies of the rivals, available means, and the Company’s outsider status."

JEL-codes: N00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-04
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