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Article: The Economic History of India, 1857-1947
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- April 1, 2002
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The Economic History of India, 1857-1947. By Tirthankar Roy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 336 pp. Tables, maps, bibliography, index. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN 0-195-65154-5.
This new book by Tirthankar Roy of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development in Mumbai was written as a successor to the massive Cambridge Economic History of India, Volume II, c.1757-1970, edited by Dharma Kumar and published in 1982. Roy has provided an updated, simplified tome designed to be suitable for an undergraduate text in Indian or Asian economic history. He condenses the information of the Cambridge history (CEHI), which runs to over 1,000 pages, and updates the scholarship. For the most part, he ...
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