Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9788192631660
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Colonial Economy in North Bengal
Author: Dynamics of North Bengal Economy : Colonial to Post-colonial Period
Author: Investigating Famines in North Bengal (1866-1909)
Author: Contagion and Enclaves
Author: Nandini BhattacharyaPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1846318297
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Contagion and Enclaves examines the social history of medicine across two intersecting British enclaves in the major tea-producing region of colonial India: the hill station of Darjeeling and the adjacent tea plantations of North Bengal. Focusing on the establishment of hill sanatoria and other health care facilities and practices against the backdrop of the expansion of tea cultivation and labor migration, it tracks the demographic and environmental transformation of the region and the critical role race and medicine played in it, showing that the British enclaves were essential and distinctive sites of the articulation of colonial power and economy.
Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital
Author: Sugata BosePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521266949
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A critical work of synthesis and interpretation of agrarian change in India over the long term.
Economy, Society, and Politics in Bengal
Author: Ranajit Das GuptaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This is a study of the economic, social, and political changes in Jalpaiguri district (North Bengal) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The broad focus of the book is on the unfolding of many strands of social and political movements.
Economy of North Bengal
Author: D. C. RoyPublisher:
ISBN: 9788186860595
Category : West Bengal (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Bengal Industries and the British Industrial Revolution (1757-1857)
Author: Indrajit RayPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136825525
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This book seeks to enlighten two grey areas of industrial historiography. Although Bengal industries were globally dominant on the eve of the industrial revolution, no detailed literature is available about their later course of development. A series of questions are involved in it. Did those industries decline during the spells of British industrial revolution? If yes, what were their reasons? If not, the general curiosity is: On which merits could those industries survive against the odds of the technological revolution? A thorough discussion on these issues also clears up another area of dispute relating to the occurrence of deindustrialization in Bengal, and the validity of two competing hypotheses on it, viz. i) the mainstream hypothesis of market failures, and ii) the neo-marxian hypothesis of imperialistic state interventions
The Development of Modern Industries in Bengal
Author: Indrajit RayPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135138726X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Bengal’s traditional industries, once celebrated worldwide, largely decayed under the backwash effects of the British Industrial Revolution in the first half of the nineteenth century. Although colonial ambivalence is often cited as an explanation, this study also shows that a series of new industries emerged during this period. The book reappraises the thesis of India’s deindustrialisation and discusses the development status of the traditional industries in the early nineteenth century, examines their technology, employment opportunities and marketing and, finally, analyses the underlying reasons for their decay. It offers a study of how traditional industries evolved into modern enterprises in a British colony, and contributes to the broader discussion on the global history of industrialisation. This book will be of interest to scholars of Indian economic history as well as those who seek to understand the widespread effects of industrialisation, especially in a colonial context.
The Decline of British Industrial Hegemony
Author: Indrajit RayPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000596494
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Through two World Wars and the Great Depression, this book explores the turbulent history of colonial Indian industry in the period immediately prior to independence. Focusing on five major industries in Bengal - coal mining, iron-smelting, jute manufacturing, paper making and tea plantation – the book looks at the impact of the war efforts on production, employment and capital: some industries experienced rapid growth due to additional investment, others suffered due to the dislocation of markets. Moreover, by drawing lessons from the war economy (especially the dearth of various essential commodities including war materials), the colonial government took up various measures in the inter-war period to promote India’s domestic industries for the first time. Additionally, the book also argues that many of the expatriate firms in India became financially weak because of the Depression which paved the way for the ‘Indianisation’ of corporate houses. These elements were significant factors in the decline of British industrial hegemony in India and aided the de-colonisation process which followed. This book will be of interest to scholars of Indian economic history as well as those with wider interests in decolonisation, industrial history and the first half of the twentieth century.