Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgements; Part 1. Colonial India 1757-1947: 1. Introduction to Part 1 Latika Chaudhary, Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy; 2. Regions, states, and economies in transition, 1750-1850 Lakshmi Subramanian and Santanu Sengupta; 3. The colonial origins of India's service sector advantage Bishnupriya Gupta; 4. Agriculture Takashi Kurosaki; 5. Industry Chikayoshi Nomura; 6.
Small-scale industries Douglas Haynes; 7. Trade and finance Tirthankar Roy; 8. Business history Christof De Jung; 9. Regional patterns of economic change: North India Clive Dewey; 10. Western India Neeraj Hatekar; 11. Eastern India Indrajit Ray; 12. South India Tsukasa Mizushima; 13. Political economy Shigeru Akita; 14.
Law and the economy Peter Robb; 15. Infrastructure: irrigation Ian Stone; 16. Infrastructure: railways Latika Chaudhary; 17. Population and health Leela Visaria; 18. Education Latika Chaudhary; 19. Women, wives, and workers Samita Sen; 20. Labour Arjan De Haan; 21. Internal migration, c.
1850-2020 Chinmay Tumbe; 22. Colonial cities and urbanization Latika Chaudhary and James Fenske; 23. The environment and the economy Vinita Damodaran; 24. Princely States Meeta Kumar and Rohini Somanathan; Part II. 1947 to Present: 25. Introduction to Part II Latika Chaudhary, Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy; 26. The economic effects of the partition Gyanesh Kudaisya and Tan Tai Yong; 27.
Growth, poverty and inequality Gaurav Datt and Anand V. Swamy; 28. Agriculture after independence Sudha Narayanan; 29. Industry in the post-independence era Arvind Panagariya; 30. The journey of Indian finance Ajay Shah; 31. Business history since 1947 Tirthankar Roy; 32. India's regional economies: divergence, stability and change R. Nagaraj; 33.
India's development policy: from independence to now Kaushik Basu; 34. Law and the economy Jaivir Singh; 35. Public goods Hemanshu Kumar and Rohini Somanathan; 36. Caste and tribe Ashwini Deshpande; 37. Women and the economy Sonia Bhalotra and Lakshmi Iyer; 38. Labour, employment and wages K. V. Ramaswamy; 39.
Economics effects of International migration from India Devesh Kapur; 40. Urbanization: 1947 - present Annapurna Shaw; 41. Environment and development in independent India Anand V. Swamy and Shreekant Gupta; 42. Pakistan's economic history: key turning points, 1947-2022 Rashid Amjad; 43. Bangladesh: 1947 to the present Tirthankar Roy and Binayak Sen; 44. Conclusion Latika Chaudhary, Tirthankar Roy and Anand Swamy.