Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India

Tirthankar (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Bombay) Roy

Cambridge University Press, 2007

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Tirthankar Roy challenges the view that traditional industry was destroyed in the colonial period. Roy argues that while traditional industry did evolve during the industrial revolution, these transformations had a galvanizing effect on manufacturing generally and that the major industries in post-independence India were shaped by such transformations.

ISBN-13
9780521033053
ISBN-10
0521033055
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2007
Publication date
2007-01-25
Pages
268
Dimensions
152x229x19
Weight
418