This volume seeks to unravel and contextualize the so-called dichotomy of old and new India and what binds them together. To understand this complex process, it attempts to apply a long-term historical perspective, a different conception of the economy and cross-disciplinary approaches.
The exceptional feature of this volume is the large historical canvas of essays and its sensitivity to the regional dimension in a country as large and diverse as India. They deal with issues ranging from land and agriculture, entrepreneurship, industry and demographic trends to a critical anatomy of modern Indian economic historiography. Together these essays contribute in providing significantly new and enriching insights into the complex process of transition from colonial to post-colonial economic development. There has been a conscious effort in most cases to capture the influence of the colonial economic structures and processes in shaping the trajectory of growth and development in the post-independence period. Drawing upon a large amount of extremely rich and varied data and information on the socio-economic trends, the book is lucid, well-crafted and reader-friendly.
List of Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface --
Introduction -- Paradox of Development/Rising Growth and Disparity/Decline of
Agriculture/Poverty Reduction/History and -- Part I Land and Agriculture --
1. Evolution of Land Rights in India/S. Neelakantan --
2. Structural Changes
in Land Distribution and Their Implications for Improving Access to Land/K.
N. Nair and Arindam Banerjee --
3. Changing Agrarian Structure in India:
Reflections on Pre-independence Ideology and Post-independence Reality/A.
Vaidyanathan --
4. Population Pressure and Labour Intensification: An Indian
Historical Perspective/N. Krishnaji --
5. Institutional Strangleholds:
Agricultural Science and the State in India/Rajeswari S. Raina -- Part II
Entrepreneurship and Industry --
6. Revisiting Indian Capitalists in Colonial
India: Some Critical Reflections/Raman Mahadevan --
7. From Merchants to
Multi-national Enterprises: European Trading Firms in South Indias
Plantation Sector/Tharian George K. --
8. Fiat or Trust? A Story of Indian
Banking (18572007) with a Regional Perspective/D. Narayana --
9. Six Decades
of Industrial Development: Growth of the Manufacturing Sector in India from
the 1940s/C. P. Chandrasekhar -- Part III Demographic Trends --
10. Fertility
in India since Independence: An Overview/K. Srinivasan --
11. Mortality
Trends and Patterns in India: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives/K.
Navaneetham and C. S. Krishnakumar --
12. A Long Haul: Revisiting
International Migration from India during the 19th and 20th Centuries/S.
Irudaya Rajan and Prabhat Kumar -- Part IV A Critical Theoretical Perspective
--
13. Pathways to Indias Economic Past/K. T. Rammohan -- About the Editors
-- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
D. Narayana is Reserve Bank of India Chair Professor at Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
Raman Mahadevan is Professor, Institute of Development Alternatives, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
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