| 书目名称 | How British Rule Changed India’s Economy |
| 副标题 | The Paradox of the R |
| 编辑 | Tirthankar Roy |
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| 概述 | Focuses on the question of whether the British were good or malign colonial rulers in India.Examines how globalization and colonialism unfolded in India.Investigates why peasants productivity rose but |
| 丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Economic History |
| 图书封面 |  |
| 描述 | .This Palgrave Pivot revisits the topic of how British colonialism moulded work and life in India and what kind of legacy it left behind. Did British rule lead to India’s impoverishment, economic disruption and famine? Under British rule, evidence suggests there were beneficial improvements, with an eventual rise in life expectancy and an increase in wealth for some sectors of the population and economy, notably for much business and industry. Yet many poor people suffered badly, with agricultural stagnation and an underfunded government who were too small to effect general improvements. In this book Roy explains the paradoxical combination of wealth and poverty, looking at both sides of nineteenth century capitalism...Between 1850 and 1930, India was engaged in a globalization process not unlike the one it has seen since the 1990s. The difference between these two times is that much of the region was under British colonial rule during the first episode, while it was an independent nation state during the second...Roy‘s narrative has a contemporary relevance for emerging economies, where again globalization has unleashed extraordinary levels of capitalistic energy while leaving man |
| 出版日期 | Book 2019 |
| 关键词 | Economic history of British rule in India; Economic development in India; Indian economic history; Brit |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17708-9 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-17708-9Series ISSN 2662-6497 Series E-ISSN 2662-6500 |
| issn_series | 2662-6497 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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