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The Heights and Economic Well-Being of North Indians under British Rule

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Lance Brennan ,
John McDonald  and
Ralph Shlomowitz
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In 1965 Morris David Morris, by questioning the view that British rule had led to the impoverishment of the Indian people, reopened the debate about the course of Indian economic welfare in the nineteenth century. Aspects of the question continue to concern scholars.

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Social Science History , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , Summer 1994 , pp. 271 - 307
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1994 

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