Rethinking Economic Change in India

As author of the hugely influential The Economic History of India 1857-1947, Tirthankar Roy has established himself as the leading contemporary economic historian of India. Here, Roy turns his attention to labour and livelihood and the nature of economic change in the Subcontinent. This book covers:

• economic history of modern India
• rural labour
• labour-intensive industrialization
• women and indus...