Indian economic growth in historical perspective : the roots of development
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Indian economic growth in historical perspective : the roots of development
(Routledge new horizons in South Asian studies)
Routledge, 2023
- : hbk
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. [283]-305
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book investigates the roots of rapid economic growth of India in recent decades, by exploring historical processes from the late colonial period.
Based upon decades-long archival and field research, this book deals with the period from the late nineteenth century to 2013 and offers an integral viewpoint of the economic history of India. While critiquing the conventional understanding that links recent economic growth only with the development of high-tech, export-oriented service sectors under the liberalised economy, the book suggests deeper and wider roots of development that had a cumulative effect in three stages. First, the agrarian development and rural socio-economic changes from the end of the nineteenth century. Second, the state-led import-substitution industrialisation since 1950 that established the industrial foundations for future economic growth. Third, the economic reforms since 1991 that helped technology-intensive industries find new markets with improved quality of production.
For the first time available in English, this book by the late Professor Haruka Yanagisawa, who was a leading figure in the South Asia studies collective in Japan, is an important contribution to the academic tradition of economic history of India. It will be of interest to researchers in the field of social and economic history, sociology, anthropology and economies of South Asia.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: In Search of the Roots of Contemporary Economic Growth in India PART I: Stirrings of Economic Development: Moves after World War I 1. Agriculture in the Great Depression: Agricultural Production and Changes in Rural Society
- 2. Growth in the Manufacturing Sector: Nationalist Movements, Import Substitution Industrialisation and a Multi-Tiered Labour Market
- 3. The Growth of Small-Scale Enterprises and Changes in Consumption Patterns: A Prototype of Post-Independence Informal Sectors Part II: The Economic Development In Independent India: The Formation of a Foundation 4. State-Led Import-Substitution Industrialisation: Forming the Foundation for Further Economic Development
- 5. Agrarian Development after Independence
- 6. Changes in Rural Society, the Development of the Rural Economy and the Growth of Rural Markets Part III: Accelerated Growth and the Structure of the Indian Economy and Society 7. The Growth of Small-Scale and Informal-Sector Industries and the Production of Low-Cost Goods
- 8. The Growth of the Service Sector and Socio-Economic Changes in Rural Society
- 9. A Growing Connection between Rural Society and the Urban Informal Economy
- 10. Economic Reforms and the Development of the Large-Scale Formal Sector
- 11. The Structure of Indian Society and Economic Growth
- Conclusion: Towards Further Development
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