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041			_aeng
082			_a330.954
100			_aHabib, Irfan _912595
245		2	_aIndian economy; 1858-1914
250			_a8th ed.
260			_bTulika Books -- _aNew Delhi -- _c2022
300			_axii, 159p.
490			_aA people's history of India, 28
520			_aThe monograph surveys the developments within the Indian economy during the period of the high tide of colonial domination between the 1857 Rebellion and the First World War. Its various sub-chapters deal with population, gross product and prices; tribute, imperialism of Free Trade, and the construction of railways; peasant agriculture, plantations, commercialization of agriculture and its impact on rents, peasant incomes and agricultural wages; and rural de-industrialization, modern industries, tariff and exchange policies; banking and finance; and fiscal system, tax-burden and the rise of economic nationalism. There are extracts from contemporary comments and reports; technical notes on such matters as computing national income, counterfactual analysis, etc., and short bibliographies accompanying each of the five chapters.
650			_aIndia _98837
650			_aEconomic conditions. _912597
650			_aEconomic history _91830
650			_aHistory _91417
942			_cBK