ABSTRACT
This book presents a concise economic history of India from 1600 to the mobile economy of the twenty-first century. It examines political events, social history, and economic developments across the world through the years to showcase how India has navigated its economic past, present, and future, and shaped events that for years controlled the Indian economy.
This volume covers a range of important themes, which include:
- Medieval fiscal systems, and the European surge in India
- The impact of the British Industrial Revolution on India; English interventionism and policies; the imperialistic economy and its impact
- Indian economy and nationalist movement in the nineteenth and early-twentieth century; the Great Depression and its global consequences
- Gandhiism and ‘mass nationalism’; Independence and Partition; the impact of the World Wars; the inter-war economy; the rise of the dollar, and other key global trends
- The Cold War and India
- Constitutional remedies, nation-building and industrial policies; food security, the Green Revolution, and the power politics of 1970s
- Liberalization, privatization, and globalization in the 1990s; and
- The economy of war and peace, India–China relations, and current trends in political economy
The book offers a lucid and insightful narrative of how the economy unfolded in India. It will interest readers of Indian history, economic history, and South Asian history and other general readers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|36 pages
European Surge in India
part II|19 pages
Aggressive Anglicization
part III|9 pages
Ambition of Industrialization against Market Fluctuations
part IV|12 pages
First Breaking of Nations
part V|25 pages
Bloodbath in Wall Street and Consequences
chapter 9|12 pages
British Opportunism and Fiscal Autonomy
part VI|15 pages
World War II and India's Independence Blueprint
chapter 10|13 pages
Second World War Perspectives
part VII|18 pages
Industry and Agriculture Tug-of-War
part VIII|9 pages
Reforming towards First Globalization
part IX|17 pages
US-Soviet Relations and its Global Impact – 1956–1991: Historical and Cultural Perspectives
part X|32 pages
Hammer Stroke of Liberalism
part XI|31 pages
Conflicts and International Relations