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The Economic History of India: A Bibliographic Essay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

Morris David Morris  and
Burton Stein
Morris David Morris
Affiliation:
University of Washington
Burton Stein
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
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In october 1959 a small group of scholars met under the auspices of the University of Chicago's Research Center in Economic Development and Cultural Change to discuss problems of research in Asian economic history. Papers prepared by two participants explored work already done in Indian economic history. It was felt that these two papers might be useful to others, those concerned with Indian economic history and those interested in comparative analysis.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , June 1961 , pp. 179 - 207
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1961

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References

1 A grant to finance the conference was generously made available by the Social Science Division of the Rockefeller Foundation.

2 Moreland, W. H., The Agrarian System of Moslem India (Allahabad: Central Book Depot, 1929). PP. 17–18Google Scholar.

3 Marx, K., “The British Rule in India,” New York, Daily Tribune, 25 June 1853Google Scholar, as reproduced in Burns, Emile (ed.), A Handbook, of Marxism (New York: International Publishers, 1935), pp. 185–86Google Scholar.

4 This problem was recently discussed quite candidly by Indian and European historians at the London Conference on Historical Writing on the Peoples of Asia, July 1956. For a discussion of this conference and its wider implications see: Warder, A. K., “Desiderata in Indian Historiography,” Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient, II (May 1959), 206–18CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 Of the sixty-four items mentioned for this period, fifty-three are by Indian scholars.

6 Mookerji, Radha Kumud, Indian Shipping: A History of the Sea-Bourne Trade and Maritime Activity of the Indians from the Earliest Times (2d ed.; Calcutta: Orient Longmans, Ltd., 1957)Google Scholar.

7 Of the 105 items mentioned for this period, forty-five were written by non-Indians.

8 See, for example, Anstey, Vera, The Economic Development of India. (3d rev. ed.; London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1939), pp. 1–10Google Scholar, 46–59, and passim.

9 Moreland felt that the materials were lacking to push the base line back to the sixteenth century.

10 There is a wealth of economic history scattered through the innumerable Parliamentary papers and Royal Commission reports concerned with Indian matters. The classification and evaluation of these materials is a task all its own.