Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India

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

Cambridge University Press, 1999

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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
9780521650120
ISBN-10
0521650127
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1999
Publication date
1999-11-04
Pages
266
Dimensions
236x159x21
Weight
515