Until the 1980s, the principal use for economic history in India was to supply a critique of the market-oriented policies of British colonial rule, and thus provide independent India's pursuit of "self reliance" with an ideological basis. In the era of globalization that kind of history has lost its intellectual vitality and its political purpose. This essay argues that in order to restore the link between economic history and modern India, the center of the discipline needs to shift from imperialism to economic structure, especially to long-term continuities between colonial and post colonial India in resource endowments.
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Volume (Year): 16 (2002) Issue (Month): 3 (Summer) Pages: 109-130 Download reference. The following formats are available: HTML
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