Concise History of Indian Economy

This book presents a concise economic history of India from 1600 to the mobile economy of the twenty-first century. It examines political events, social history, and economic developments across the world through the years to showcase how India has navigated its economic past, present, and future, and shaped events that for years controlled the Indian economy.

This volume covers a range of important themes, which include:

Medieval fiscal systems, and the European surge in IndiaThe impact of the British Industrial Revolution on India; English interventionism and policies; the imperialistic economy and its impactIndian economy and nationalist movement in the nineteenth and early-twentieth century; the Great Depression and its global consequencesGandhiism and ‘mass nationalism’; Independence and Partition; the impact of the World Wars; the inter-war economy; the rise of the dollar, and other key global trendsThe Cold War and IndiaConstitutional remedies, nation-building and industrial policies; food security, the Green Revolution, and the power politics of 1970sLiberalization, privatization, and globalization in the 1990s; andThe economy of war and peace, India–China relations, and current trends in political economyThe book offers a lucid and insightful narrative of how the economy unfolded in India. It will interest readers of Indian history, economic history, and South Asian history and other general readers.