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Subject(s)

• Labor—India—History [Browse]
• Women—Employment—India—History [Browse]
• India—Economic policy [Browse]

Series

• Routledge explorations in economic history ; 28. [More in this series]
• Routledge explorations in economic history ; 28 [More in this series]

Summary note

As author of the hugely influential The Economic History of India 1857-1947, Tirthankar Roy has established himself as the leading contemporary economic historian of India. Here, Roy turns his attention to labour and livelihood and the nature of economic change in the Subcontinent. This book covers:economic history of modern India rural labour labour-intensive industrialization women and industrialization.Challenging the prevailing wisdom on Indian economic growth - that it is bound up with Marxian, postcolo

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Economic History and Modern India: Redifining the Link; 3. Rural Labour and Colonialism; 4. Agricultural Labour: Lessons from Wage Data; 5. Was there an Industrial Decline in India in the Early Nineteenth Century?; 6. Labour-intensive Industrialization; 7. Women and Industrialization; 8. Women in the Crafts; 9. Labour and Power: A Critique of 'Subaltern Studies'; 10. Conclusion; Notes; References; Index

ISBN

• 1-134-27065-8
• 1-134-27066-6
• 1-280-30255-0
• 9786610302550
• 0-203-02310-2

OCLC

• 475922523
• 61848948

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203023105

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