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This is often the 1st entire and interpretative account of the historical past of monetary progress and alter in colonial and post-colonial India. Dr. Tomlinson attracts jointly and expands at the expert literature facing imperialism, improvement and underdevelopment, the historic strategies of swap in agriculture, exchange and manufacture, and the kin between enterprise, the economic climate and the country. What emerges is an image of an economic system within which a few output progress and technical swap happened either prior to and after 1947, yet during which a widely dependent means of improvement has been limited by way of structural and marketplace imperfections. Tomlinson argues that India has therefore had an underdeveloped economic system, with vulnerable marketplace buildings and underdeveloped associations, which has because 1860 profoundly stimulated the social, political and ecological heritage of South Asia.

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Thus asymmetrical power and political relations, rather than natural endowments or comparative advantage, determined the economic history of underdeveloped countries: 26 Far from serving as an engine of e c o n o m i c e x p a n s i o n , o f t e c h n o l o g i c a l p r o g r e s s , and of social c h a n g e , the capitalist o r d e r in these c o u n t r i e s has represented framework for backwardness. economic stagnation, for archaic t e c h n o l o g y , and for a social 2 7 The notion of colonial South Asia as host to a particular, regressive form of capitalism, leading to dependency, underdevelopment, or sustained backwardness, has been refined further, in the work of Amiya Bagchi and Hamza Alavi for example, into the concept of a distinct colonial mode of production.

S. S i v a s u b r a m o n i a n , in his ' N a t i o n a l I n c o m e o f India 1900-01 to 1 9 4 6 - 7 ' , P h . D . dissertation, D e l h i S c h o o l o f E c o n o m i c s , 1 9 6 5 , s h o w s an 1 1 . 1 per cent fall in c r o p y i e l d s in the p e r i o d 1900-46 based o n B l y n ' s 1951 estimates, as d o e s the same a u t h o r ' s essay ' E s t i m a t e s o f g r o s s v a l u e o f o u t p u t o f a g r i c u l t u r e ' , in V . K . R . V . R a o et al. ), Papers on National Income and Allied Topics, V o l u m e 1, L o n d o n , i 9 6 0 , w h i l e B l y n ' s later w o r k s u g g e s t an o v e r a l l increase in y i e l d s o f 9 per cent in the same p e r i o d .

C h a u d h u r i , ' I n d i a ' s International E c o n o m y in the N i n e t e e n t h C e n t u r y : A n H i s t o r i c a l S u r v e y ' , Modern Asian Studies, 2, 1, 1968, p . 44. A n s t e y , Economic Development of India, p . 5 1 1 . Irfan H a b i b , ' S t u d y i n g a C o l o n i a l E c o n o m y - W i t h o u t P e r c e i v i n g C o l o n i a l i s m ' , Modern Asian Studies, 1 9 , 3, 1985, p p . 3 7 5 - 6 . 1 5 1 6 1 7 G o v e r n m e n t o f India, Report C o m m i t t e e ] , A p p e n d i x 11, n o .

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