The National Income of India in the Twentieth Century

This is the first book to present the series of national income estimates of India for the entire period from 1900 to 2000. Written by one of the foremost authorities on the subject in the country, this comprehensive volume: is a compact source of quality data on growth and structural change in national income, puts forth a comparative picture of the pace and pattern of growth in India, fills the gaps in national income accounts by estimating real product at 1948-9 prices thereby providing a common base for comparison for pre-and post-independence India, presents annual estimates of real national income for colonial India, including native states, marshalling all available data and applying standard methodologies, overcomes pitfalls of earlier conflicting interpretations due to divergent conjectures of economic historians.