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A Flow of Funds Model for India and Its Implications 0 0 0 1 10 12 12 429
Book Review: Handicraft History in India 0 0 1 67 4 4 7 461
Changes in Saving-Rate and its Implications for Growth 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 290
Climate and the Economy in India, 1850-2000 0 0 3 40 3 6 10 38
Consumption of cotton cloth in India, 1795-1940 0 1 1 71 2 7 10 236
Did globalisation aid industrial development in colonial India? A study of knowledge transfer in the iron industry 0 0 0 14 4 8 9 70
Did globalization aid industrial development in colonial India?: a study of knowledge transfer in the iron industry 0 0 0 21 0 0 0 107
Economic Conditions in Early Modern Bengal: A Contribution to the Divergence Debate 1 1 4 135 3 5 9 292
Economic Reforms and the Textile Industry in India 0 0 0 13 2 2 13 8,384
Editors' note 0 0 1 1 4 8 9 9
Geography or politics? Regional inequality in colonial India 0 0 0 1 2 3 6 23
Growth, Distribution and Demand for Textiles in India 0 0 0 2 5 5 7 659
India is broken a people betrayed, independence to today by Ashoka Mody, Standford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2023, xii + 511 pp 0 0 20 20 3 4 11 11
Market-resurgence, deregulation, and industrial response: Indian cotton textiles in the 1990s 0 0 0 22 3 3 4 98
Price Movements in Early Twentieth Century in India 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 248
Reassessing FERA: examining British firms’ strategic responses to ‘Indianisation’ 0 0 1 11 0 2 3 12
Rethinking the origins of British India: state formation and military-fiscal undertakings in an 18th-century world region 0 1 4 26 3 6 11 67
Rethinking the origins of British India: state formation and military-fiscal undertakings in an eighteenth century world region 0 0 0 56 0 0 1 156
State capacity and the economic history of colonial India 0 1 1 47 3 13 18 53
Technology in Colonial India: Three Discourses 0 0 0 122 5 13 21 228
The development of the arid tropics: lessons for economic history 0 0 0 31 6 8 9 26
The monsoon and the market for money in late-colonial India 0 0 1 55 6 7 10 68
Useful & reliable: technological transformation in colonial India 0 0 0 14 5 8 12 22
Water, climate, and economy in India from 1880 to the present 0 0 0 48 0 2 7 33
Why geography matters to the economic history of India 0 0 0 0 7 9 11 11
Total Working Papers 1 4 37 818 80 140 217 12,031
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A Machine Learning-Based Probabilistic Approach for Irrigation Scheduling 0 0 4 8 6 11 22 32
A delayed revolution: environment and agrarian change in India 0 0 0 35 0 0 0 92
A flow of funds model for India and its implications 0 0 0 83 2 7 8 244
Acceptance of innovations in early twentieth–century Indian weaving 0 0 1 8 1 2 6 29
An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions. ByJean Drèze andAmartya Sen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. xiv + 434 pp. Maps, figures, tables, references, appendices, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-16079-5 0 0 0 6 3 5 5 40
B. R. Tomlinson, The economy of modern India from 1860 to the twenty-first century ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xviii + 250. 6 figs. 13 maps. 30 tabs. ISBN 9781107605473 Pbk. £19.99) 0 2 3 32 1 3 5 133
Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India. By Sudev Sheth. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 353 pp. Digital Copy $39.99. ISBN: 978-1-00-933021-3 0 0 2 2 3 3 6 6
Beyond Divergence: Rethinking the Economic History of India 0 0 3 10 0 3 9 23
Bondage: labor and rights in Eurasia from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries By Alessandro Stanziani. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2014. Pp. x + 258. Hardback £75.00, ISBN 978-1-78238-250-8; paperback £22.00, ISBN 978-1-78533-035-3 0 0 0 4 3 3 4 32
Book Review: C.J. Fuller and Haripriya Narasimhan, Tamil Brahmans: The Making of a Middle-class Caste 0 0 0 18 4 4 5 116
Book Review: David Arnold, Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India’s Modernity 0 0 0 2 3 3 3 12
Book Review: Deepak Kumar, Vinita Damodaran, and Rohan D’Souza, eds., The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia and Bhangya Bhukya, Subjugated Nomads: The Lambadas under the Rule of the Nizams 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 8
Book Review: NITIN SINHA, Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India: Bihar, 1760s–1880s 0 0 0 5 0 3 3 14
Book Review: Peter Sutoris, Visions of Development: Films Division of India and the Imagination of Progress, 1948–1975 0 0 0 4 1 2 3 25
Book Review: Richard B. Allen, European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean 0 0 0 1 5 5 5 7
Book Review: The Trading World of the Indian Ocean, 1500–1800 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
Book Review: Workers of the World: Essays towards a Global Labour History 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2
Book Reviews: ARUN BANERJI, Finances in the Early Raj: Investments and the External Sector, New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1995, 338 pp 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 3
Book Reviews: B.R. TOMLINSON, The Economy of Modern India, 1860-1970, Cambridge University Press, Foundation Books, New Delhi, 1993,235 pp., Rs. 325 0 1 2 4 3 5 6 19
Book Reviews: DWIJENDRA TRIPATHI, Historical Roots of Industrial Entrepreneurship in India and Japan: A Comparative Interpretation, Manohar, New Delhi, 1997, pp. 162 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 3
Book Reviews: G. BALACHANDRAN, John Bullion's Empire: Britain's Gold Problem and India Between the Wars, Curzon Press, Richmond, pp. xii + 252, 1996 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 5
Book Reviews: GEORGE ROSEN, Contrasting Styles of Industrial Reform: China and India in the 1980s, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1992, xiii + 168 pp 0 0 0 0 5 5 5 6
Book Reviews: H. VAN WERSCH, Bombay Textile Strike 1982-83, Oxford University Press, Bombay, 1992, xxiv + 463, Rs. 450 0 0 0 1 1 2 3 7
Book Reviews: HARISH C. SHARMA, Artisans of the Punjab: A Study of Social Change in Historical Perspective 1849-1947, Manohar Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 1996, pp. 167 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 7
Book Reviews: JACK GOODY, The East in the West, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, x + 295 pp 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 6
Book Reviews: JAN BREMAN, Footloose Labour, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, x + 278 pp 0 0 0 3 3 4 4 8
Book Reviews: MANJIT SINGH, The Political Economy of Unorganised Industry: A Study of the Labour Process, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1990, 236 pp., Rs. 190 0 0 0 0 1 5 15 16
Book Reviews: MEENA BHARGAVA, State, Society and Ecology: Gorakhpur in Transition,1750-1830, Delhi, Manohar, 1999,pp. 279 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 6
Book Reviews: MUSHIRUL HASAN and NARIAKI NAKAZATO, eds, The Unfinished Agenda. Nation- building in South Asia, New Delhi, Manohar, 2001, pp. 536 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
Book Reviews: NASIR TYABJI, The Small Industries Policy in India, Oxford University Press, Calcutta, 1989, 223 pp., Rs. 200 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 3
Book Reviews: PHILIPPE CADÈNE and DENIS VIDAL, eds, Webs of Trade: Dynamics of Business Communities in Western India, New Delhi, Manohar, 1997, pp. 196 0 0 0 1 2 3 3 5
Book Reviews: Peter Robb, ed., Meanings of Agriculture, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 389 0 0 0 0 3 3 3 6
Book Reviews: RAJEN SAIKIA, Social and Economic History of Assam, 1853-1921, Manohar, New Delhi, 2000, pp. 258 0 0 0 12 6 6 6 30
Book Reviews: S. SIVASUBRAMONIAN, The National Income of India in the Twentieth Century, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 655 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 4
Book Reviews: S.R.B. LEADBEATER, The Politics of Textiles: The Indian Cotton-Mill Industry and the Legacy of Swadeshi, 1900-1985, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1993, 312 pp., Rs. 285 0 0 1 5 2 2 4 11
Book Reviews: SUGATA BOSE, Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital. Rural Bengal since 1770 (The New Cambridge History of India), Foundation Books, Delhi, 1993, xvi + 203 pp., Rs 275 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 4
Book Reviews: WILLEM VAN SCHENDEL, (ed), Francis Buchanan in Southeast Bengal (1798), Manohar, 1992, pp. xxx + 209, Rs 300 0 0 0 0 3 3 3 4
Book review: A. R. Venkatachalapathy, Swadeshi Steam: V.O. Chidambaram Pillai and the Battle against the British Maritime Empire 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 5
Book review: Amit Kumar Gupta, Crises and Creativities: Middle Class Bhadralok in Bengal c. 1939–52, Parimal Ghosh, What Happened to the Bhadralok and Tanika Sarkar and Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, eds., Calcutta: The Stormy Decades 0 0 0 6 0 0 1 31
Book review: Gagan D. S. Sood, India and the Islamic Heartlands: An Eighteenth-century World of Circulation and Exchange 0 0 1 6 2 3 5 23
Book review: Peter Robb, Ideas Matter: Debating the Impact of British Rule on India 0 0 0 4 1 1 3 19
Book review: Santosh Kumar Rai, Weaving Hierarchies: Handloom Weavers in Early Twentieth Century United Provinces 0 0 0 4 3 4 5 19
Book review: Suvobrata Sarkar, ed., History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in India 0 0 0 1 5 7 9 10
CONSUMPTION OF COTTON CLOTH IN INDIA, 1795–1940 0 0 1 18 3 5 9 117
Capitalism and community: A study of the Madurai Sourashtras 0 2 2 15 1 5 6 37
Capitalism, Inequality and Labour in India 0 0 0 6 4 4 5 23
Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India. ByLilly Irani. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. xx + 277 pp. Illustrations, photographs, references, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95; paper, $29.95. ISBN: cloth, 9780691175133; paper, 9780691175140 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 16
Conceiving mobility: Weavers' migrations in pre-colonial and colonial India 0 0 2 30 3 4 12 72
Correction to: A Machine Learning-Based Probabilistic Approach for Irrigation Scheduling 0 0 0 0 4 4 5 6
County-scale flood risk assessment of properties and associated population in the United States 0 0 3 3 2 5 15 15
Development policy and legal persistence: Evidence from India 1 1 2 2 1 2 6 6
Did globalisation aid industrial development in colonial India? A study of knowledge transfer in the iron industry 0 1 1 7 0 6 8 29
Economic Conditions in Early Modern Bengal: A Contribution to the Divergence Debate 1 3 4 47 6 8 14 122
Economic History and Modern India: Redefining the Link 1 2 5 624 10 18 29 2,369
Editors' note: Markets in history—Concepts and outcomes of commercialisation in South Asia 0 0 0 2 2 2 4 20
Editors’ Note 0 0 0 0 3 3 4 4
Financing the Raj: the City of London and colonial India 1858-1940 0 0 1 15 3 5 10 47
Flourishing branches, wilting core: research in modern Indian economic history 0 0 0 40 0 0 1 256
Foreign trade and the artisans in colonial India: A study of leather 0 0 0 12 4 4 4 41
Fractured Modernity: Making of a Middle Class in Colonial North India. By Sanjay Joshi. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001. xiv + 209 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-195-64562-6 0 0 0 5 2 2 2 26
GLOBALISATION, FACTOR PRICES, AND POVERTY IN COLONIAL INDIA 0 2 3 60 1 5 7 242
Geography or politics? Regional inequality in colonial India 0 0 0 23 2 3 9 64
India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today by Ashoka Mody, Standford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2023, xii + 511 pp 0 0 0 2 1 2 4 13
Indian Handlooms in the 20th Century 0 0 3 16 3 3 7 50
Indigo and law in colonial India 0 0 0 9 3 4 6 32
Indigo and law in colonial India 0 0 1 21 5 9 10 90
Introduction to the symposium on economic history and India 0 0 2 9 1 1 3 17
Knowledge and divergence from the perspective of early modern India* 0 0 2 41 0 1 6 92
Lost Glory: India's Capitalism Story. By Sumit K. Majumdar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xx + 308 pp. Appendices. Hardcover, $44.95. ISBN: 978-0-1996-4199-4 0 0 1 1 1 2 4 6
Madras handkerchiefs in the interwar period 0 0 1 10 2 2 3 19
Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs: Indian Business in the Colonial Era. ByClaude Markovits. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. x + 292 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-0-230-20598-7 0 0 0 2 2 3 3 21
Migration: Change and Continuity 0 0 0 3 1 2 2 14
Mircea Raianu, Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism Boston Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2021. Pp. 291. Hardcover £31.95. ISBN 9780674984516 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 6
Money supply and asset choice in inter-war India 0 0 1 4 3 5 6 16
Pim de Zwart and Jan Luiten van Zanden, The origins of globalization: world trade in the making of the global economy, 1500–1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xvi+338. 34 figs. 15 tabs. 9 maps. ISBN 9781108426992 Hbk. £64.99; ISBN 9781108447133 Pbk. £21.99) 0 0 0 9 5 5 6 32
Price movements in early twentieth-century India 0 0 0 7 3 4 5 31
Reassessing FERA: Examining British firms’ strategic responses to ‘Indianisation’ 0 0 0 3 2 4 4 12
Relocating modern science: circulation and the construction of knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650–1900 By Kapil Raj. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. xiv + 285. Hardback £50, ISBN 9780230507081 0 0 0 27 3 4 4 92
Roman Studer. The Great Divergence Reconsidered. Europe, India, and the Rise to Global Economic Power. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xii + 231 pp. ISBN 9781107020542, $99.00 (cloth) 0 0 1 13 1 1 2 25
Shireen Moosvi, The economy of the Mughal Empire c. 1595. A statistical study (2nd edn. New Delhi: Oxford University Press: 2015. Pp. xii + 476. ISBN 9780199450541 Pbk. £37.99) 0 0 0 15 1 2 8 68
Size and structure of handloom weaving in the mid-thirties 0 0 1 10 2 4 6 37
Stages of capital: law, culture and market governance in late colonial India – By Ritu Birla 0 0 0 45 2 3 3 122
State Capacity and the Economic History of Colonial India 0 1 2 16 2 7 12 56
State, society and market in the aftermath of natural disasters in colonial India 0 1 1 10 3 5 9 32
THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF INDIA (1858-1947)* 0 0 2 58 7 29 48 254
The Chinese and Indian Corporate Economies: A Comparative History of Their Search for Economic Renaissance and Globalization. By Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017. xviii + 471 pp. Map, figures, tables, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $215.00 ISBN: 978-1-138-92988-3 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 11
The Monsoon and the Market for Money in Late-colonial India 0 0 0 12 4 6 8 42
The Origins of Import Substituting Industrialization in India 1 2 3 30 6 12 20 190
The Rise and Fall of Indian Economic History 1920-2013 0 1 2 31 2 8 10 101
The development of the arid tropics: Lessons for economic history 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 5
The role of the state in initiating development: A study of interwar South and Southeast Asia 0 0 1 16 3 3 5 43
Trading Firms in Colonial India 0 0 0 10 3 8 12 56
Transfer of Economic Power in Corporate Calcutta, 1950–1970 0 0 0 6 3 4 6 22
Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600–1850. By Prasannan Parthasrathi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xviii, 365. $90.00, hardcover 0 0 1 24 0 1 2 62
Why geography matters to the economic history of India 0 1 7 13 6 13 25 46
‘THE LAW OF STORMS’: EUROPEAN AND INDIGENOUS RESPONSES TO NATURAL DISASTERS IN COLONIAL INDIA, c. 1800–1850 0 1 1 19 1 2 3 91
Total Journal Articles 4 21 75 1,677 222 376 599 6,396


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A Business History of India 0 0 0 0 2 4 12 111
A Business History of India 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 46
Company of Kinsmen: Enterprise and Community in South Asian History 1700-1940 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 94
Economic History of India, 1857-1947 0 0 0 0 9 25 83 5,032
How British Rule Changed India’s Economy 0 0 0 0 5 6 16 98
India in the World Economy 0 0 0 0 3 9 11 40
India in the World Economy 0 0 0 0 4 6 8 33
Kerala, 1956 to the Present 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Kerala, 1956 to the Present 0 0 0 0 1 5 20 34
Law and the Economy in Colonial India 0 0 0 0 7 10 23 283
Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy 0 0 0 0 3 4 9 28
Natural Disasters and Indian History: Oxford India Short Introductions 0 0 0 0 5 8 24 604
Origins of Colonialism 0 0 0 0 1 1 7 7
Origins of Colonialism 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 4
The Economic History of India 1857-1947 0 0 0 0 7 21 58 2,161
The Economy of South Asia 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 36
The Reserve Bank of India 0 0 0 0 2 4 4 7
Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India 0 0 0 0 1 12 22 181
Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India 0 0 0 0 2 4 7 72
Total Books 0 0 0 0 56 129 320 8,872


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A Different Story? The Princely States 0 0 0 0 3 9 14 43
A Poor State 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10
Business 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 6
Conclusion 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 8
Defining the Region: Geography and History 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 3
End of Famine 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 30
Growth and Development 0 0 0 0 5 6 8 8
Introduction 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 15
Introduction 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 3
Land Reforms 0 0 0 0 3 3 5 12
Migration 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 17
South Asia 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 3
States and Development: Early Modern India, China, and the Great Divergence 0 0 0 1 5 13 28 67
Summary and Conclusion 0 0 0 0 2 6 8 10
The Business of the Cities 0 0 0 0 3 3 6 11
The Green Revolution 0 0 0 0 2 2 5 11
The Making of British India 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 21
The State and the Economy I: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 13
The State and the Economy II: Sri Lanka and Nepal 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 8
Trade and Industry I: India 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2
Trade and Industry II: Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal 0 0 0 0 1 3 6 11
Unyielding Land 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 8
Total Chapters 0 0 0 1 35 67 109 320


Statistics updated 2026-02-12