India in the world economy : from antiquity to the present / Tirthankar Roy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roy, Tirthankar, author.

Series:

New approaches to Asian history ; 10.

New approaches to Asian history ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

India--Commerce--History.

India.

India--Economic conditions.

India--Foreign economic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 288 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cross-cultural exchange has characterized the economic life of India since antiquity. Its long coastline has afforded convenient access to Asia and Africa as well as trading partnerships formed in the exchange of commodities ranging from textiles to military technology and from opium to indigo. In a journey across two thousand years, this enthralling book, written by a leading South Asian historian, describes the ties of trade, migration, and investment between India and the rest of the world and shows how changing patterns of globalization have reverberated in economic policy, politics, and political ideology within India. Along the way, the book asks three major questions: Is this a particularly Indian story? When did the big turning points happen? And is it possible to distinguish the modern from the pre-modern pattern of exchange? These questions invite a new approach to the study of Indian history by placing the region at the center of the narrative. This is global history written on India's terms, and, as such, the book invites Indian, South Asian, and global historians to rethink both their history and their methodologies.

Contents:

Introduction: India and global history

Ports and hinterlands to 1200

Receding land frontiers, 1200-1700

The Indian Ocean trade, 1500-1800

Trade, migration, and investment, 1800-1850

Trade, migration, and investment, 1850-1920

Colonialism and development, 1860-1920

Depression and decolonization, 1920-1950

From trade to aid, 1950-1980

Return to market, 1980-2010

Conclusion: a new India?

References

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-22817-4

1-139-41136-5

1-280-68509-3

9786613662033

1-139-42272-3

1-139-41970-6

0-511-92051-2

1-139-42175-1

1-139-41765-7

1-139-42379-7

OCLC:

794663458