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Book Summary of Shaping India: Economic Change in Historical Perspective
The book seeks to unravel and contextualize the so-called dichotomy of `old` and `new` India and what binds them together. To understand this complex process, it attempts to apply a long-term historical perspective, a different conception of the economy and cross-disciplinary approaches.
The exceptional feature of this volume is the large historical canvas of essays and its sensitivity to the regional dimension in a country as diverse as India. The essays deal with issues ranging from land and agriculture, entrepreneurship, industry and demographic trends to a critical anatomy of modern Indian economic historiography. Together these contribute in providing significantly new and enriching insights into the process of transition from colonial to post-colonial development. There has been a conscious effort in most cases to capture the influence of the colonial economic structures and processes in shaping the trajectory of growth and development in the post-independence period.
Drawing upon a large amount of extremely rich and varied data and information on the socio-economic trends, the book is lucid, well-crafted and reader-friendly.
CONTRIBUTORS:
Arindam Banerjee / C. P. Chandrasekhar / Tharian George K. / N. Krishnaji / C. S. Krishnakumar / Prabhat Kumar / Raman Mahadevan / K. N. Nair / D. Narayana / K. Navaneetham / S. Neelakantan/ Rajeswari S. Raina / S. Irudaya Rajan / K. T. Rammohan / K. Srinivasan / A. Vaidyanathan
About the Author
D. Narayana is Reserve Bank of India Chair Professor at Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
Raman Mahadevan is Professor, Institute of Development Alternatives, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. isbn
9780415678049
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Pages : 316
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