About the Book: Essays in Modern Indian Economic History
Essays in Modern Indian Economic History is part of a three-volume set,
comprising representative articles of Indian History Congress Proceedings
(193585). The essays in this volume provide an overview of the continuities and
changes in the historians approach to the economic aspects of modern Indian
history. In the agenda of economic historians, the problems uppermost have been
the policies of the colonial state, the impact of metropolitan capitalism on
colonial trade and industry, and in particular the evolution of land revenue
systems in various regions. At the same time, many of the continuities from the
pre-colonial period to the