Law and the Economy in Colonial India
- ISBN-10
- 022638764X
- ISBN-13
- 9780226387642
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-09-20
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Authors
- Tirthankar Roy, Anand V. Swamy
Description
By accessibly recounting and analyzing the unique experience of institutions in colonial Indiawhich were influenced heavily by both British Common Law and indigenous Indian practices and traditionsLaw and the Economy in Colonial India sheds new light on what exactly fosters the types of institutions that have been key to economic development throughout world history more generally. The culmination and years of research, the book goes through a range of examples, including textiles, opium, tea, indigo, tenancy, credit, and land mortgage, to show how economic laws in colonial India were shaped neither by imported European ideas about how colonies should be ruled nor indigenous institutions, but by the practice of producing and trading. The book is an essential addition to Indian history and to some of the most fundamental questions in economic history."
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