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Contributed articles.
Author : Ajitava Raychaudhuri
Publisher : Allied Publishers
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 22,23 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Infrastructure (Economics)
ISBN : 9788177647310
Contributed articles.
Author : Indrajit Ray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 13,12 MB
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136825525
This book seeks to enlighten two grey areas of industrial historiography. Although Bengal industries were globally dominant on the eve of the industrial revolution, no detailed literature is available about their later course of development. A series of questions are involved in it. Did those industries decline during the spells of British industrial revolution? If yes, what were their reasons? If not, the general curiosity is: On which merits could those industries survive against the odds of the technological revolution? A thorough discussion on these issues also clears up another area of dispute relating to the occurrence of deindustrialization in Bengal, and the validity of two competing hypotheses on it, viz. i) the mainstream hypothesis of market failures, and ii) the neo-marxian hypothesis of imperialistic state interventions
Author : Ajitava Raychaudhuri
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,52 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
The Present Volume Fulfils A Felt Need For A Comprehensive And Regiorous Analysis Of Various Aspects Of The Economy Of West Bengal, Such As, Agriculture And Rural Progress, Industry, Human Development And Migration. The Book Would Be Of Interest To A Wide Cross-Section Of Readership, Particularly Economists, Planners And Social Researchers.
Author : Sugata Bose
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 29,29 MB
Release : 2007-12-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521053624
As well as being an outstanding contribution to Indian economic and social history, this book draws important conclusions about peasant politics in general and about the effects of international economic fluctuations on primary producing countries. Dr Bose develops a general typology of systems of agrarian production in Bengal to show how these responded to different types of pressure from the world economy, and treats in detail the effects of the world Depression on Bengal. Separate chapters are devoted to the themes of agrarian conflict and religious strife in east Bengal, the agrarian dimension of mass nationalism in west Bengal and sharecroppers agitations in the frontier regions. The conclusion attempts a synthesis of the typology of agrarian social structure and the periodisation of peasant politics, placing this in the wider context of agrarian societies and protest in other parts of India and in South-east Asia.
Author : Om Prakash
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 13,10 MB
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1400857767
Om Prakash reveals the central role played by Bengal in the Dutch East India Company's activities in India in the seventeenth and the early eighteenth century and the resulting integration of India into the world economy. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Barbara Harriss-White
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 10,45 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Agricultural performance is influenced by agricultural commodity markets. However, the importance of these markets has largely been ignored by agricultural policymakers and mainstream economists. This pioneering study, covering both the pre- and the post-liberalization periods, and West Bengal's transformation from a seriously deficit to a surplus state, conceives of the post-harvest sector as a system of markets. It shows how, while West Bengal enjoyed the results of a reformed agrarian system, the market system remained unreformed until recently. The book sheds light on the role and importance of distribution and commodity markets in shaping and spreading the benefits of higher productivity across society. An original analysis of the regulation of markets by institutions of collective action and social identity, as well as by the state, the book discusses a regulatory policy that could be adopted by any government, irrespective of its ideology. Barbara Harriss-White's quarter-century of field work in West Bengal has yielded new insights into the political economy, where ethno-cultural networks and informal finance have led to a polarization of agro-commercial power on the one hand, and a proliferation of livelihoods for small traders in the post-harvest market system on the other. Challenging many of the claims of orthodox political economy, this well researched volume offers a new interpretation of rural development over three decades of communist rule.
Author : Debi Sankar Ganguly
Publisher : New Delhi : Orient Longman
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 30,41 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Industries
ISBN :
This Book Is A Comprehensive Study Of The Regional Economy Of West Bengal. The Districts Discussed By Professor Ganguli Are Ideal Models In That They Are A Combination Of Economic Prosperity And Backwardness. The Study Emphasises Aspects Of Urbanisation And Industrialisation, Projecting Growth And Potential Of The Region. The Author Has Stressed The Need To Correct Regional Imbalances That Tend To Develop Because Of The Unplanned Growth Of The Economy And The Friction And Tension Prevalent In Society. This Book Is Its Principal Aspects Of The Study Of Population-Urbanisation Effects, Infrastructural And Locational Factors Of Industry, Indicates The Basic Approach To Industrialisation And Economic Development Of The Region.
Author : G. Balachandran
Publisher :
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,72 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Essays By Leading Scholars Presents India`S Engagement With The World Economy, And The Ways In Which It Was Transformed And Deepened During The 19Th And Early 20Th Centuries. Some Essays Shift The Discussion Toward The Interweaving And Mutually-Reinforcing Contexts Of Colonialism And Contemporary `Globalization`.
Author : Aseema Sinha
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,9 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Central-local government relations
ISBN : 9780253344045
This look at economic development in India focuses on interactions between the central state and regional elites. India is widely regarded as a "failed" developmental state, seemingly the exception that belies the prediction of a triumphant Asian century.
Author : Syed Ejaz Hussain
Publisher : Manohar Publishers
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 16,70 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9788173044823
The Book Presents A Comprehensive Account Of The Politico- Economic History Of Bengal From Ad 1205 To 1576. It Makes Extensive Use Of Coins And Epigraphs To Interpret And Substantiate The Historical Narrative Culled Out From The Contemporaneous Chronicles And Travelogues. The Entire Narrative Is Enriched By A Corpus Of Rare Coins Spread Over 32 Plates. Required Reading Not Only For The Serious Schlor But Also The Lay Reader Interested In Medieval Indian History And Numismatics .