Overview
- Compares India’s economic development with China’s to determine the factors leading to different development trajectories
- Evaluates whether India’s current development path is sustainable
- Highlights the role trade played in the historic and modern development of India
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History (PEHS)
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This book, the second of two volumes, explores India’s economic development from the Gupta Empire (400AD) through to modern day India. The specific characteristics of economic development in India are examined to help determine development paths India can pursue to create sustainable development in the 21st century. The transition from the primary section to the secondary sector, through the process of industrialisation and in turn the move towards the services sector, is discussed in relation to climate change, technological innovation, and the pressure on resources posed by population growth.
This book aims to contextualise India’s economic development within the political economy of trade, with a particular focus on institutions such as the IMF and the British East India Company. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in economic history, development economics, and the political economy.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Sangaralingam Ramesh is an Economics Tutor in the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Oxford and a Senior Teaching Fellow in Economics at University College London, UK. He has been an Associate Professor in Economics at the Université Paris Dauphine GBD and Economics Module Leader at Kings College London.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Political Economy of India’s Economic Development: 5000BC to 2024AD, Volume II
Book Subtitle: The Gupta Empire to an Independent India and Beyond
Authors: Sangaralingam Ramesh
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-67004-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-67003-9Published: 25 August 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-67006-0Due: 08 September 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-67004-6Published: 24 August 2024
Series ISSN: 2662-6497
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6500
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 345
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Economic History, Economic Growth, Political Economy/Economic Systems