Table of Contents

List of maps; List of tables; Preface; Part I. The Land and the People: 1. The mid-eighteenth-century background Tapan Raychaudhuri; 2. Agrarian relations Eric Stokes, B. Chaudhuri, H. Fukazawa and Dharma Kumar; 3. Regional economy (1757–1857) Tom G. Kessinger, S. Bhattacharya, V. D. Divekar and Dharma Kumar; 4. National income A. Heston; 5. Population (1757–1947) Leela Visaria and Pravin Visaria; 6. The occupational structure J. Krishnamurty; Part II. The Beginnings of the Modern Economy: 7. The growth of large-scale industry to 1947 Morris D. Morris; 8. Irrigation and railways Elizabeth Whitcombe and John M. Hurd; 9. Money and credit, 1858–1947 A. G. Chandavarkar; 10. Foreign trade and balance of payments (1757–1947) K. N. Chaudhuri; 11. Price movements and fluctuations in economic activity (1860–1947) Michelle McAlpin; 12. The fiscal system Dharma Kumar; Part III. Post-Independence Developments: 13. The Indian economy since independence (1947–70) A. Vaidyanathan; 14. The Pakistan economy since independence (1947–70) Swadesh R. Bose; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

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From the establishment of British rule to its termination, with epilogues on the post-Independence period.