Shaping India: economic change in historical perspective /
by D. Narayana
- New Delhi: Routledge, 2011.
- xvi, 362 p.
Machine generated contents note: Paradox of Development -- Rising Growth and Disparity -- Decline of Agriculture -- Poverty Reduction -- History and Institutions -- pt. I Land and Agriculture -- 1.Evolution of Land Rights in India / S. Neelakantan -- 2.Structural Changes in Land Distribution and Their Implications for Improving Access to Land / Arindam Banerjee -- 3.Changing Agrarian Structure in India: Reflections on Pre-independence Ideology and Post-independence Reality / A. Vaidyanathan -- 4.Population Pressure and Labour Intensification: An Indian Historical Perspective / N. Krishnaji -- 5.Institutional Strangleholds: Agricultural Science and the State in India / Rajeswari S. Raina -- pt. II Entrepreneurship and Industry -- 6.Revisiting Indian Capitalists in Colonial India: Some Critical Reflections / Raman Mahadevan -- 7.From Merchants to Multi-national Enterprises: European Trading Firms in South India's Plantation Sector / Tharian George K. Note continued: 8.Fiat or Trust? A Story of Indian Banking (1857 -- 2007) with a Regional Perspective / D. Narayana -- 9.Six Decades of Industrial Development: Growth of the Manufacturing Sector in India from the 1940s / C. P. Chandrasekhar -- pt. III Demographic Trends -- 10.Fertility in India since Independence: An Overview / K. Srinivasan -- 11.Mortality Trends and Patterns in India: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives / C. S. Krishnakumar -- 12.A Long Haul: Revisiting International Migration from India during the 19th and 20th Centuries / Prabhat Kumar -- pt. IV A Critical Theoretical Perspective -- 13.Pathways to India's Economic Past / K. T. Rammohan.
This volume seeks to unravel and contextualize the so-called dichotomy of ' old' and ' new' India and what binds them together. To understand this complex process, it attempts to apply a long-term historical perspective, a different conception of the economy and cross-disciplinary approaches. The exceptional feature of this volume is the large historical canvas of essays and its sensitivity to the regional dimension in a country as large and diverse as India. They deal with issues ranging from land and agriculture.