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The Historical Roots of Indian Poverty: Issues in the Economic and Social History of Modern South Asia: 1880–1960

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

B. R. Tomlinson
B. R. Tomlinson
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University of Birmingham
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Study of the economic and social history of modern mainland South Asia—covering present-day India, Pakistan and Bangla Desh over roughly the last hundred years—has been a major academic growth industry since the 1960s. The result has been a bulky and disparate corpus of work, spinning off in many directions and adopting increasingly inter-disciplinary approaches, with historians borrowing from, informing, and interacting with anthropologists, sociologists, and economists among others. The sheer volume of recent research is impressive. One survey of empirical work on the nineteenth century (N. C. Charlesworth, The Indian Economy under British Rule, 1800–1914, London, 1983) lists over 150 titles, more than half of them published in the 1970s; another discussion of conceptual material available for the study of Indian economic growth and development in an historical context has over 100 footnote references, and an appendix listing 109 further relevant works published between 1979 and 1984.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , February 1988 , pp. 123 - 140
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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References

A Select Bibliography of Representative Recent Works on the Economic and Social History of Modern South Asia

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