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How did markets, states, and social institutions of business relate to each other in pre-colonial and colonial India? Do narratives of institutional change in India clarify the process of economic growth and origins of international inequality in the modern world? Employing techniques of comparative history, Company of Kinsmen investigates the transformation of economic institutions in one of the world's largest and most complex commercial ...
This work is one of the few detailed and updated textbooks on the economic history of colonial India. It approaches the subject along the same lines as the Cambridge Economic History of India, but is a much more condensed and compact version aimed at students. The volume captures new research on old themes as well as the emergence of new themes such as common property, small-scale industry, and the environment. From the myriad facets of economic history, topics ...