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Tirthankar Roy

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Department of Economic History
London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom
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Working papers

  1. Nath, Maanik & Roy, Tirthankar, 2025. "Editors' note," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 128321, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  2. Roy, Tirthankar, 2024. "Will climate change disrupt tropical development? Lessons from economic history," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 125641, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  3. Roy, Tirthankar, 2023. "India is broken a people betrayed, independence to today by Ashoka Mody, Standford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2023, xii + 511 pp," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 125364, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  4. Roy, Tirthankar, 2022. "The great retreat: pastoralism in the arid tropics," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 115698, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  5. Roy, Tirthankar, 2022. "The development of the arid tropics: lessons for economic history," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 115514, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  6. Roy, Tirthankar, 2021. "Why geography matters to the economic history of India," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 120698, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  7. Roy, Tirthankar, 2021. "Useful & reliable: technological transformation in colonial India," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 113442, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  8. Roy, Tirthankar, 2021. "Water, climate, and economy in India from 1880 to the present," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 109207, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  9. Roy, Tirthankar, 2020. "Reading the economic history of Afghanistan," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 106957, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  10. Roy, Tirthankar, 2019. "State capacity and the economic history of colonial India," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 100723, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  11. Roy, Tirthankar, 2019. "Climate and the Economy in India, 1850-2000," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 445, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
  12. Roy, Tirthankar, 2019. "Climate and the economy in India, 1850-2000," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 102589, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  13. Roy, Tirthankar, 2018. "Inequality in colonial India," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 90409, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  14. Aldous, Michael & Roy, Tirthankar, 2018. "Reassessing FERA: examining British firms’ strategic responses to ‘Indianisation’," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 89975, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  15. Roy, Tirthankar, 2016. "The monsoon and the market for money in late-colonial India," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 67418, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  16. Roy, Tirthankar, 2014. "Technology in Colonial India: Three Discourses," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 198, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
  17. Roy, Tirthankar, 2014. "Geography or politics? Regional inequality in colonial India," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 88845, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  18. Tirthankar Roy, 2011. "Rethinking the origins of British India: state formation and military-fiscal undertakings in an 18th-century world region," Working Papers 11001, Economic History Society.
  19. Roy, Tirthankar, 2011. "Consumption of cotton cloth in India, 1795-1940," CEPR Discussion Papers 8669, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  20. Roy, Tirthankar, 2010. "Rethinking the origins of British India: state formation and military-fiscal undertakings in an eighteenth century world region," Economic History Working Papers 28443, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
  21. Roy, Tirthankar, 2010. "Rethinking the origins of British India: state formation and military-fiscal undertakings in an eighteenth century world region," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 28443, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  22. Roy, Tirthankar, 2009. "Economic Conditions in Early Modern Bengal: A Contribution to the Divergence Debate," CEPR Discussion Papers 7522, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  23. Tirthankar Roy, 2009. "Book Review: Handicraft History in India," Working Papers id:2135, eSocialSciences.
  24. Roy, Tirthankar, 2009. "Did globalisation aid industrial development in colonial India? A study of knowledge transfer in the iron industry," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 27396, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  25. Roy, Tirthankar, 2009. "Did globalization aid industrial development in colonial India?: a study of knowledge transfer in the iron industry," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 27876, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  26. Roy, T., 1998. "Economic Reforms and the Textile Industry in India," Papers 146, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research-.
  27. Roy, T., 1996. "Market-resurgence, deregulation, and industrial response : Indian cotton textiles in the 1990s," ISS Working Papers - General Series 18950, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (ISS), The Hague.
  28. Sen, K. & Roy, T. & Krishnan, R. & Mundlay, A., 1993. "A Flow of Funds Model for India and Its Implications," Papers 85, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research-.
  29. Roy, T., 1992. "Price Movements in Early Twentieth Century in India," Papers 80, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research-.
  30. Suryanarayana, M.H. & Roy, T. & Parikh, K.S., 1992. "Growth, Distribution and Demand for Textiles in India," Papers 68, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research-.
  31. Roy, T. & Sen, K., 1991. "Changes in Saving-Rate and its Implications for Growth," Papers 44, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research-.

Articles

  1. Maanik Nath & Tirthankar Roy, 2025. "Editors’ Note," Rivista di storia economica, Società editrice il Mulino, issue 1, pages 3-6.
  2. Tirthankar Roy & Anand V. Swamy, 2025. "Development policy and legal persistence: Evidence from India," Rivista di storia economica, Società editrice il Mulino, issue 1, pages 95-116.
  3. Shivendra Srivastava & Tyler Gerdes & Tirthankar Roy, 2025. "County-scale flood risk assessment of properties and associated population in the United States," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 121(3), pages 2641-2664, February.
  4. Tirthankar Roy, 2025. "Book review: A. R. Venkatachalapathy, Swadeshi Steam: V.O. Chidambaram Pillai and the Battle against the British Maritime Empire," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 62(2), pages 274-277, June.
  5. Tirthankar Roy, 2024. "Book review: Suvobrata Sarkar, ed., History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in India," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 61(3), pages 423-425, July.
  6. Shivendra Srivastava & Nishant Kumar & Arindam Malakar & Sruti Das Choudhury & Chittaranjan Ray & Tirthankar Roy, 2024. "Correction to: A Machine Learning-Based Probabilistic Approach for Irrigation Scheduling," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 38(14), pages 5807-5807, November.
  7. Roy, Tirthankar, 2024. "Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India. By Sudev Sheth. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 353 pp. Digital Copy $39.99. ISBN: 978-1-00-933021-3," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 98(4), pages 975-977, December.
  8. Tirthankar Roy, 2023. "India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today by Ashoka Mody , Standford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2023, xii + 511 pp," The Developing Economies, Institute of Developing Economies, vol. 61(4), pages 345-347, December.
  9. Tirthankar Roy, 2023. "The development of the arid tropics: Lessons for economic history," Economic History of Developing Regions, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(2), pages 151-172, May.
  10. Tirthankar Roy, 2023. "Book review: Santosh Kumar Rai, Weaving Hierarchies: Handloom Weavers in Early Twentieth Century United Provinces," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 60(3), pages 373-375, July.
  11. Tirthankar Roy, 2022. "Book review: Peter Robb, Ideas Matter: Debating the Impact of British Rule on India," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 59(3), pages 408-411, July.
  12. Tirthankar Roy, 2022. "Mircea Raianu, Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism Boston Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2021. Pp. 291. Hardcover £31.95. ISBN 9780674984516," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 75(3), pages 982-984, August.
  13. Tirthankar Roy, 2022. "Introduction to the symposium on economic history and India," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 75(2), pages 371-373, May.
  14. Tirthankar Roy, 2021. "Capitalism, Inequality and Labour in India," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 57(9), pages 1572-1573, September.
  15. Roy, Tirthankar, 2021. "Lost Glory: India's Capitalism Story. By Sumit K. Majumdar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xx + 308 pp. Appendices. Hardcover, $44.95. ISBN: 978-0-1996-4199-4," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 95(3), pages 599-601, March.
  16. Tirthankar Roy, 2021. "Why geography matters to the economic history of India," Australian Economic History Review, Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 61(3), pages 273-289, November.
  17. Michael Aldous & Tirthankar Roy, 2021. "Reassessing FERA: Examining British firms’ strategic responses to ‘Indianisation’," Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 63(1), pages 18-37, January.
  18. Roy, Tirthankar, 2019. "Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India. ByLilly Irani. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. xx + 277 pp. Illustrations, photographs, references, notes, index. Clot," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 93(4), pages 854-856, December.
  19. Tirthankar Roy, 2019. "State Capacity and the Economic History of Colonial India," Australian Economic History Review, Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 59(1), pages 80-102, March.
  20. Tirthankar Roy, 2019. "Pim de Zwart and Jan Luiten van Zanden, The origins of globalization: world trade in the making of the global economy, 1500–1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xvi+338. 34 figs. 15 ," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 72(4), pages 1521-1522, November.
  21. Tirthankar Roy, 2019. "Book review: Gagan D. S. Sood, India and the Islamic Heartlands: An Eighteenth-century World of Circulation and Exchange," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 56(4), pages 515-517, October.
  22. Tirthankar Roy & Chinmay Tumbe, 2019. "Migration: Change and Continuity," Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, , vol. 31(1), pages 1-4, January.
  23. Tirthankar Roy, 2018. "Book review: Amit Kumar Gupta, Crises and Creativities: Middle Class Bhadralok in Bengal c. 1939–52, Parimal Ghosh, What Happened to the Bhadralok and Tanika Sarkar and Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, eds., C," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 55(2), pages 302-306, April.
  24. Tirthankar Roy, 2018. "Book Review: Peter Sutoris, Visions of Development: Films Division of India and the Imagination of Progress, 1948–1975," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 55(3), pages 456-458, July.
  25. Tirthankar Roy, 2017. "Book Review: C.J. Fuller and Haripriya Narasimhan, Tamil Brahmans: The Making of a Middle-class Caste," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 54(2), pages 290-292, April.
  26. Tirthankar Roy, 2017. "Shireen Moosvi , The economy of the Mughal Empire c. 1595. A statistical study (2nd edn. New Delhi : Oxford University Press : 2015 . Pp. xii + 476 . ISBN 9780199450541 Pbk. £37.99)," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 70(1), pages 349-350, February.
  27. Roy, Tirthankar, 2017. "The Chinese and Indian Corporate Economies: A Comparative History of Their Search for Economic Renaissance and Globalization. By Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown . Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017. x," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 91(3), pages 598-601, October.
  28. Roy, Tirthankar, 2017. "Bondage: labor and rights in Eurasia from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries By Alessandro Stanziani. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2014. Pp. x + 258. Hardback £75.00, ISBN 978-1-78," Journal of Global History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 12(1), pages 157-159, March.
  29. Tirthankar Roy, 2017. "The Origins of Import Substituting Industrialization in India," Economic History of Developing Regions, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(1), pages 71-95, January.
  30. Roy, Tirthankar, 2017. "Transfer of Economic Power in Corporate Calcutta, 1950–1970," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 91(1), pages 3-29, April.
  31. Roy, Tirthankar, 2016. "The British Empire And The Economic Development Of India (1858-1947)," Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 34(2), pages 209-236, September.
  32. Tirthankar Roy, 2016. "Book Review: Richard B. Allen, European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 53(2), pages 285-287, April.
  33. Roy, Tirthankar, 2016. "Roman Studer. The Great Divergence Reconsidered. Europe, India, and the Rise to Global Economic Power. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xii + 231 pp. ISBN 9781107020542, $99.00 (cloth)," Enterprise & Society, Cambridge University Press, vol. 17(2), pages 439-441, June.
  34. Roy, Tirthankar, 2016. "The Monsoon and the Market for Money in Late-colonial India," Enterprise & Society, Cambridge University Press, vol. 17(2), pages 324-357, June.
  35. Tirthankar Roy, 2015. "Book Review: NITIN SINHA, Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India: Bihar, 1760s–1880s," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 52(1), pages 114-115, January.
  36. Tirthankar Roy, 2014. "Financing the Raj: the City of London and colonial India 1858-1940," Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 56(6), pages 1024-1026, September.
  37. Roy, Tirthankar, 2014. "An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions. ByJean Drèze andAmartya Sen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. xiv + 434 pp. Maps, figures, tables, references, appendices, notes, index. C," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 88(2), pages 406-409, July.
  38. Tirthankar Roy, 2014. "Book Review: The Trading World of the Indian Ocean, 1500–1800," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 51(1), pages 140-142, January.
  39. Tirthankar Roy, 2014. "The Rise and Fall of Indian Economic History 1920-2013," Economic History of Developing Regions, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(1), pages 15-41, June.
  40. Tirthankar Roy, 2014. "B. R. Tomlinson , The economy of modern India from 1860 to the twenty-first century ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . Pp. xviii + 250. 6 figs. 13 maps. 30 tabs. ISBN 9781107605473 Pbk.," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 67(3), pages 882-883, August.
  41. Tirthankar Roy, 2014. "Geography or politics? Regional inequality in colonial India," European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society, vol. 18(3), pages 324-348.
  42. Tirthankar Roy, 2014. "Book Review: David Arnold, Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India’s Modernity," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 51(3), pages 392-394, July.
  43. Roy, Tirthankar, 2014. "Trading Firms in Colonial India," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 88(1), pages 9-42, April.
  44. Tirthankar Roy, 2012. "Beyond Divergence: Rethinking the Economic History of India," Economic History of Developing Regions, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(S1), pages 57-65.
  45. Roy, Tirthankar, 2012. "Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600–1850. By Prasannan Parthasrathi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xviii, 365. $90.00, hardcover," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 72(3), pages 851-853, August.
  46. Tirthankar Roy, 2012. "Book Review: Deepak Kumar, Vinita Damodaran, and Rohan D’Souza, eds., The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia and Bhangya Bhukya, Subjugated Nomads: The Lamb," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 49(4), pages 598-601, December.
  47. Tirthankar Roy, 2012. "Consumption Of Cotton Cloth In India, 1795–1940," Australian Economic History Review, Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 52(1), pages 61-84, March.
  48. Tirthankar Roy, 2012. "Book Review: Workers of the World: Essays towards a Global Labour History," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 49(2), pages 286-290, June.
  49. Roy, Tirthankar, 2011. "Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs: Indian Business in the Colonial Era. ByClaude Markovits. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. x + 292 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-0-230-2059," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 85(4), pages 825-828, January.
  50. Tirthankar Roy, 2011. "Indigo and law in colonial India," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 64, pages 60-75, February.
  51. Tirthankar Roy, 2010. "Stages of capital: law, culture and market governance in late colonial India – By Ritu Birla," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 63(1), pages 274-276, February.
  52. Tirthankar Roy, 2010. "‘THE LAW OF STORMS’: EUROPEAN AND INDIGENOUS RESPONSES TO NATURAL DISASTERS IN COLONIAL INDIA, c. 1800–1850," Australian Economic History Review, Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 50(1), pages 6-22, March.
  53. Roy, Tirthankar, 2010. "Economic Conditions in Early Modern Bengal: A Contribution to the Divergence Debate," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 70(1), pages 179-194, March.
  54. Tirthankar Roy, 2009. "Did globalisation aid industrial development in colonial India? A study of knowledge transfer in the iron industry," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 46(4), pages 579-613, October.
  55. Roy, Tirthankar, 2008. "Relocating modern science: circulation and the construction of knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650–1900 By Kapil Raj. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. xiv + 285. Hardback £50, ISBN 9780," Journal of Global History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 3(1), pages 129-131, March.
  56. Tirthankar Roy, 2008. "State, society and market in the aftermath of natural disasters in colonial India," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 45(2), pages 261-294, June.
  57. Roy, Tirthankar, 2008. "Knowledge and divergence from the perspective of early modern India," Journal of Global History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 3(3), pages 361-387, November.
  58. Tirthankar Roy, 2007. "Globalisation, Factor Prices, And Poverty In Colonial India," Australian Economic History Review, Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 47(1), pages 73-94, March.
  59. Tirthankar Roy, 2007. "A delayed revolution: environment and agrarian change in India," Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Oxford University Press and Oxford Review of Economic Policy Limited, vol. 23(2), pages 239-250, Summer.
  60. Tirthankar Roy, 2004. "Flourishing branches, wilting core: research in modern Indian economic history," Australian Economic History Review, Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 44(3), pages 221-240, November.
  61. Tirthankar Roy, 2003. "Book Reviews : RAJEN SAIKIA, Social and Economic History of Assam, 1853-1921, Manohar, New Delhi, 2000, pp. 258," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 40(1), pages 113-114, January.
  62. Tirthankar Roy, 2003. "Book Reviews : MUSHIRUL HASAN and NARIAKI NAKAZATO, eds, The Unfinished Agenda. Nation- building in South Asia, New Delhi, Manohar, 2001, pp. 536," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 40(2), pages 242-245, June.
  63. Roy, Tirthankar, 2002. "Fractured Modernity: Making of a Middle Class in Colonial North India. By Sanjay Joshi. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001. xiv + 209 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-195-64," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 76(3), pages 651-653, October.
  64. Tirthankar Roy, 2002. "Madras handkerchiefs in the interwar period," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 39(2-3), pages 285-300, September.
  65. Tirthankar Roy, 2002. "Economic History and Modern India: Redefining the Link," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 16(3), pages 109-130, Summer.
  66. Tirthankar Roy, 2002. "Book Reviews : S. SIVASUBRAMONIAN, The National Income of India in the Twentieth Century, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 655," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 39(1), pages 113-115, March.
  67. Tirthankar Roy, 2002. "Acceptance of innovations in early twentieth–century Indian weaving," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 55(3), pages 507-532, August.
  68. Tirthankar Roy, 2001. "Book Reviews : PHILIPPE CADÈNE and DENIS VIDAL, eds, Webs of Trade: Dynamics of Business Communities in Western India, New Delhi, Manohar, 1997, pp. 196," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 38(4), pages 473-474, December.
  69. Tirthankar Roy, 2000. "Book Reviews : MEENA BHARGAVA, State, Society and Ecology: Gorakhpur in Transition,1750-1830, Delhi, Manohar, 1999,pp. 279," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 37(4), pages 490-491, December.
  70. Tirthankar Roy, 1999. "Book Reviews : DWIJENDRA TRIPATHI, Historical Roots of Industrial Entrepreneurship in India and Japan: A Comparative Interpretation, Manohar, New Delhi, 1997, pp. 162," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 36(4), pages 504-505, December.
  71. Douglas E. Haynes & Tirthankar Roy, 1999. "Conceiving mobility: Weavers' migrations in pre-colonial and colonial India," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 36(1), pages 35-67, March.
  72. Tirthankar Roy, 1999. "Book Reviews : Peter Robb, ed., Meanings of Agriculture, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 389," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 36(2), pages 266-268, June.
  73. Jairus Banaji & Tirthankar Roy, 1999. "Editors' note: Markets in history—Concepts and outcomes of commercialisation in South Asia," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 36(3), pages 271-273, August.
  74. Tirthankar Roy, 1999. "Book Reviews : ARUN BANERJI, Finances in the Early Raj: Investments and the External Sector, New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1995, 338 pp," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 36(3), pages 389-391, August.
  75. Tirthankar Roy, 1998. "Book Reviews : HARISH C. SHARMA, Artisans of the Punjab: A Study of Social Change in Historical Perspective 1849-1947, Manohar Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 1996, pp. 167," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 35(3), pages 352-353, September.
  76. Roy Tirthankar, 1998. "Indian Handlooms in the 20th Century," Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, De Gruyter, vol. 39(2), pages 129-150, December.
  77. Tirthankar Roy, 1998. "Book Reviews : G. BALACHANDRAN, John Bullion's Empire: Britain's Gold Problem and India Between the Wars, Curzon Press, Richmond, pp. xii + 252, 1996," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 35(3), pages 337-339, September.
  78. Tirthankar Roy, 1997. "Capitalism and community: A study of the Madurai Sourashtras," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 34(4), pages 437-463, December.
  79. Tirthankar Roy, 1997. "Book Reviews : JAN BREMAN, Footloose Labour, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, x + 278 pp," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 34(3), pages 377-379, September.
  80. Tirthankar Roy, 1997. "Book Reviews : JACK GOODY, The East in the West, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, x + 295 pp," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 34(3), pages 387-389, September.
  81. Sen, Kunal & Roy, Tirthankar & Krishnan, R. & Mundlay, Arundhati, 1996. "A flow of funds model for India and its implications," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 18(5), pages 469-494, October.
  82. Tirthankar Roy, 1996. "Book Reviews : WILLEM VAN SCHENDEL, (ed), Francis Buchanan in Southeast Bengal (1798), Manohar, 1992, pp. xxx + 209, Rs 300," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 33(4), pages 495-495, December.
  83. Tirthankar Roy, 1996. "The role of the state in initiating development: A study of interwar South and Southeast Asia," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 33(4), pages 373-401, December.
  84. Tirthankar Roy, 1995. "Price movements in early twentieth-century India," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 48(1), pages 118-133, February.
  85. Tirthankar Roy, 1994. "Book Reviews : H. VAN WERSCH, Bombay Textile Strike 1982-83, Oxford University Press, Bombay, 1992, xxiv + 463, Rs. 450," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 31(1), pages 114-115, March.
  86. Tirthankar Roy, 1994. "Book Reviews : B.R. TOMLINSON, The Economy of Modern India, 1860-1970, Cambridge University Press, Foundation Books, New Delhi, 1993,235 pp., Rs. 325," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 31(2), pages 257-259, June.
  87. Tirthankar Roy, 1994. "Foreign trade and the artisans in colonial India: A study of leather," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 31(4), pages 461-490, December.
  88. Tirthankar Roy, 1994. "Book Reviews : S.R.B. LEADBEATER, The Politics of Textiles: The Indian Cotton-Mill Industry and the Legacy of Swadeshi, 1900-1985, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1993, 312 pp., Rs. 285," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 31(3), pages 397-398, September.
  89. Tirthankar Roy, 1994. "Book Reviews : SUGATA BOSE, Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital. Rural Bengal since 1770 (The New Cambridge History of India), Foundation Books, Delhi, 1993, xvi + 203 pp., Rs 275," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 31(4), pages 531-533, December.
  90. Tirthankar Roy, 1993. "Book Reviews : GEORGE ROSEN, Contrasting Styles of Industrial Reform: China and India in the 1980s, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1992, xiii + 168 pp," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 30(4), pages 496-498, December.
  91. Tirthankar Roy, 1993. "Money supply and asset choice in inter-war India," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 30(2), pages 163-180, June.
  92. Tirthankar Roy, 1991. "Book Reviews : MANJIT SINGH, The Political Economy of Unorganised Industry: A Study of the Labour Process, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1990, 236 pp., Rs. 190," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 28(4), pages 473-474, December.
  93. Tirthankar Roy, 1991. "Book Reviews : NASIR TYABJI, The Small Industries Policy in India, Oxford University Press, Calcutta, 1989, 223 pp., Rs. 200," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 28(2), pages 223-224, June.
  94. Tirthankar Roy, 1988. "Size and structure of handloom weaving in the mid-thirties," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 25(1), pages 1-24, March.

Chapters

  1. Tirthankar Roy, 2019. "Conclusion," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: How British Rule Changed India’s Economy, chapter 0, pages 151-154, Palgrave Macmillan.
  2. Tirthankar Roy, 2019. "A Different Story? The Princely States," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: How British Rule Changed India’s Economy, chapter 0, pages 135-149, Palgrave Macmillan.
  3. Tirthankar Roy, 2019. "Unyielding Land," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: How British Rule Changed India’s Economy, chapter 0, pages 81-98, Palgrave Macmillan.
  4. Tirthankar Roy, 2019. "A Poor State," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: How British Rule Changed India’s Economy, chapter 0, pages 99-110, Palgrave Macmillan.
  5. Tirthankar Roy, 2019. "Introduction," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: How British Rule Changed India’s Economy, chapter 0, pages 1-23, Palgrave Macmillan.
  6. Tirthankar Roy, 2019. "End of Famine," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: How British Rule Changed India’s Economy, chapter 0, pages 111-133, Palgrave Macmillan.
  7. Tirthankar Roy, 2019. "The Business of the Cities," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: How British Rule Changed India’s Economy, chapter 0, pages 55-79, Palgrave Macmillan.
  8. Tirthankar Roy, 2019. "The Making of British India," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: How British Rule Changed India’s Economy, chapter 0, pages 25-53, Palgrave Macmillan.
  9. Tirthankar Roy, 2018. "South Asia," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Matthias Blum & Christopher L. Colvin (ed.), An Economist’s Guide to Economic History, chapter 34, pages 293-299, Palgrave Macmillan.
  10. Tirthankar Roy, 2017. "Growth and Development," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: The Economy of South Asia, chapter 5, pages 95-127, Palgrave Macmillan.
  11. Tirthankar Roy, 2017. "Business," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: The Economy of South Asia, chapter 10, pages 239-285, Palgrave Macmillan.
  12. Tirthankar Roy, 2017. "The State and the Economy II: Sri Lanka and Nepal," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: The Economy of South Asia, chapter 4, pages 75-93, Palgrave Macmillan.
  13. Tirthankar Roy, 2017. "Migration," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: The Economy of South Asia, chapter 11, pages 287-303, Palgrave Macmillan.
  14. Tirthankar Roy, 2017. "Trade and Industry II: Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: The Economy of South Asia, chapter 9, pages 215-237, Palgrave Macmillan.
  15. Tirthankar Roy, 2017. "Summary and Conclusion," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: The Economy of South Asia, chapter 12, pages 305-313, Palgrave Macmillan.
  16. Tirthankar Roy, 2017. "The State and the Economy I: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: The Economy of South Asia, chapter 3, pages 39-74, Palgrave Macmillan.
  17. Tirthankar Roy, 2017. "The Green Revolution," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: The Economy of South Asia, chapter 7, pages 155-181, Palgrave Macmillan.
  18. Tirthankar Roy, 2017. "Defining the Region: Geography and History," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: The Economy of South Asia, chapter 2, pages 23-37, Palgrave Macmillan.
  19. Tirthankar Roy, 2017. "Trade and Industry I: India," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: The Economy of South Asia, chapter 8, pages 183-214, Palgrave Macmillan.
  20. Tirthankar Roy, 2017. "Land Reforms," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: The Economy of South Asia, chapter 6, pages 129-154, Palgrave Macmillan.
  21. Tirthankar Roy, 2017. "Introduction," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: The Economy of South Asia, chapter 1, pages 1-21, Palgrave Macmillan.
  22. Bishnupriya Gupta & Debin Ma & Tirthankar Roy, 2016. "States and Development: Early Modern India, China, and the Great Divergence," Studies in Economic History, in: Jari Eloranta & Eric Golson & Andrei Markevich & Nikolaus Wolf (ed.), Economic History of Warfare and State Formation, pages 51-69, Springer.

Books

  1. Roy,Tirthankar, 2025. "Origins of Colonialism," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781009524179, January.
  2. Roy,Tirthankar & Raman,K. Ravi, 2024. "Kerala, 1956 to the Present," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781009521635, January.
  3. Roy,Tirthankar, 2023. "The Reserve Bank of India," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781316511329, January.
  4. Roy, Tirthankar & Swamy, Anand V., 2022. "Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy," University of Chicago Press Economics Books, University of Chicago Press, edition 1, number 9780226799001.
  5. Tirthankar Roy, 2019. "How British Rule Changed India’s Economy," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, Palgrave Macmillan, number 978-3-030-17708-9.
  6. Roy,Tirthankar, 2018. "A Business History of India," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781107186927, January.
  7. Tirthankar Roy, 2017. "The Economy of South Asia," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, Palgrave Macmillan, number 978-3-319-54720-6.
  8. Roy, Tirthankar & Swamy, Anand V., 2016. "Law and the Economy in Colonial India," University of Chicago Press Economics Books, University of Chicago Press, number 9780226387642.
  9. Roy, Tirthankar, 2012. "Natural Disasters and Indian History: Oxford India Short Introductions," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198075370.
  10. Roy,Tirthankar, 2012. "India in the World Economy," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781107009103, January.
  11. Haynes, Douglas & McGowan, Abigail & Roy, Tirthankar & Yanagisawa, Haruka (ed.), 2010. "Towards a History of Consumption in South Asia," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198063643.
  12. Roy, Tirthankar, 2010. "Company of Kinsmen: Enterprise and Community in South Asian History 1700-1940," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198063780.
  13. Roy,Tirthankar, 2007. "Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9780521033053, January.
  14. Roy, Tirthankar, 2006. "The Economic History of India 1857-1947," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, edition 2, number 9780195684308.

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  15. NEP-SEA: South East Asia (1) 2025-08-11

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