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Tirthankar Roy

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Terminal Degree:1989 (from RePEc Genealogy)

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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 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  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. "Climate and the economy in India, 1850-2000," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 102589, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  11. 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.
  12. Roy, Tirthankar, 2019. "Climate and the Economy in India, 1850-2000," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 445, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
  13. 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.
  14. Roy, Tirthankar, 2018. "Inequality in colonial India," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 90409, 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," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 28443, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  21. Tirthankar Roy, 2009. "Book Review: Handicraft History in India," Working Papers id:2135, eSocialSciences.
  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. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. Roy, T., 1998. "Economic Reforms and the Textile Industry in India," Papers 146, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research-.
  26. 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.
  27. 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-.
  28. Roy, T., 1992. "Price Movements in Early Twentieth Century in India," Papers 80, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research-.
  29. 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-.
  30. Roy, T. & Sen, K., 1991. "Changes in Saving-Rate and its Implications for Growth," Papers 44, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research-.
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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. Shivendra Srivastava & Nishant Kumar & Arindam Malakar & Sruti Das Choudhury & Chittaranjan Ray & Tirthankar Roy, 2024. "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(5), pages 1639-1653, March.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Tirthankar Roy, 2021. "Capitalism, Inequality and Labour in India," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 57(9), pages 1572-1573, September.
  16. 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.
  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. 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.
  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 & Chinmay Tumbe, 2019. "Migration: Change and Continuity," Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, , vol. 31(1), pages 1-4, January.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  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, 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.
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  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, 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.
  32. 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.
  33. 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.
  34. 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.
  35. 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.
  36. 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.
  37. 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.
  38. 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.
  39. 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.
  40. Roy, Tirthankar, 2014. "Trading Firms in Colonial India," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 88(1), pages 9-42, April.
  41. 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.
  42. 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.
  43. 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.
  44. 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.
  45. 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.
  46. 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.
  47. 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.
  48. 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.
  49. 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.
  50. 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.
  51. Tirthankar Roy, 2011. "Indigo and law in colonial India," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 64, pages 60-75, 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. 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.
  54. 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.
  55. 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.
  56. 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.
  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, 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.
  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, 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.
  61. 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.
  62. 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.
  63. 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.
  64. 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.
  65. Tirthankar Roy, 2002. "Madras handkerchiefs in the interwar period," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 39(2-3), pages 285-300, September.
  66. 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.
  67. 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.
  68. 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.
  69. 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.
  70. 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.
  71. 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.
  72. 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.
  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 : 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.
  75. 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.
  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, 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.
  79. 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.
  80. 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.
  81. 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.
  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. 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.
  84. 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.
  85. Tirthankar Roy, 1995. "Price movements in early twentieth-century India," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 48(1), pages 118-133, February.
  86. 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.
  87. 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.
  88. 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.
  89. 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.
  90. 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.
  91. 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.
  92. 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.
  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, 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.
  95. 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. "Introduction," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: How British Rule Changed India’s Economy, chapter 0, pages 1-23, Palgrave Macmillan.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  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. "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.
  12. 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.
  13. Tirthankar Roy, 2017. "The Green Revolution," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: The Economy of South Asia, chapter 7, pages 155-181, Palgrave Macmillan.
  14. 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.
  15. Tirthankar Roy, 2017. "Land Reforms," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: The Economy of South Asia, chapter 6, pages 129-154, Palgrave Macmillan.
  16. Tirthankar Roy, 2017. "Introduction," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: The Economy of South Asia, chapter 1, pages 1-21, Palgrave Macmillan.
  17. Tirthankar Roy, 2017. "Business," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: The Economy of South Asia, chapter 10, pages 239-285, Palgrave Macmillan.
  18. Tirthankar Roy, 2017. "Migration," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: The Economy of South Asia, chapter 11, pages 287-303, Palgrave Macmillan.
  19. Tirthankar Roy, 2017. "Summary and Conclusion," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: The Economy of South Asia, chapter 12, pages 305-313, Palgrave Macmillan.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  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, 2025. "Origins of Colonialism," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781009524193, January.
  3. Roy,Tirthankar & Raman,K. Ravi, 2024. "Kerala, 1956 to the Present," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781009521635, January.
  4. Roy,Tirthankar & Raman,K. Ravi, 2024. "Kerala, 1956 to the Present," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781009521659, January.
  5. Roy,Tirthankar, 2023. "The Reserve Bank of India," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781316511329, January.
  6. 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.
  7. Tirthankar Roy, 2019. "How British Rule Changed India’s Economy," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, Palgrave Macmillan, number 978-3-030-17708-9, May.
  8. Roy,Tirthankar, 2018. "A Business History of India," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781316637487, January.
  9. Roy,Tirthankar, 2018. "A Business History of India," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781107186927, January.
  10. Tirthankar Roy, 2017. "The Economy of South Asia," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, Palgrave Macmillan, number 978-3-319-54720-6, May.
  11. 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.
  12. Roy,Tirthankar, 2012. "India in the World Economy," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781107401471, January.
  13. Roy,Tirthankar, 2012. "India in the World Economy," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781107009103, January.
  14. Roy, Tirthankar, 2012. "Natural Disasters and Indian History: Oxford India Short Introductions," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198075370.
  15. 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.
  16. Roy, Tirthankar, 2010. "Company of Kinsmen: Enterprise and Community in South Asian History 1700-1940," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198063780.
  17. Roy,Tirthankar, 2007. "Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9780521033053, January.
  18. Roy, Tirthankar, 2006. "The Economic History of India 1857-1947," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, edition 2, number 9780195684308.

Citations

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Working papers

  1. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. 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.
    2. Daniel Gallardo-Albarrán, 2024. "The Global Sanitary Revolution in Historical Perspective," Working Papers 0247, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).
    3. 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.

  2. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. Latika Chaudhary & Jared Rubin & Sriya Iyer & Anand Shrivastava, 2018. "Culture and Colonial Legacy: Evidence from Public Goods Games," Working Papers 18-06, Chapman University, Economic Science Institute.

  3. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. Iftekhar Iqbal, 2017. "Cooperative credit in colonial Bengal: An exploration in development and decline, 1905–1947," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 54(2), pages 221-237, April.

  4. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. Alvaredo, Facundo & Bergeron, Augustin & Cassan, Guilhem, 2017. "Income concentration in British India, 1885–1946," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 127(C), pages 459-469.
    2. Fredriksson, Per G. & Gupta, Satyendra Kumar, 2022. "Land productivity and colonization," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 113(C).
    3. 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.
    4. Shree Saha, 2019. "Historical institutions and electoral outcomes the case of India after decolonization," Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai Working Papers 2019-033, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India.

  5. Roy, Tirthankar, 2011. "Consumption of cotton cloth in India, 1795-1940," CEPR Discussion Papers 8669, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.

    Cited by:

    1. Broadberry, Stephen & Gupta, Bishnupriya, 2012. "India And The Great Divergence: An Anglo-Indian Comparison Of Gdp Per Capita, 1600-1871," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 81, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    2. 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.
    3. Loren Brandt & Debin Ma & Thomas G. Rawski, 2014. "From Divergence to Convergence: Reevaluating the History behind China's Economic Boom," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 52(1), pages 45-123, March.

  6. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. Broadberry, Stephen & Gupta, Bishnupriya, 2012. "India And The Great Divergence: An Anglo-Indian Comparison Of Gdp Per Capita, 1600-1871," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 81, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    2. Broadberry, Stephen, 2013. "Accounting for the great divergence," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 54573, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    3. Broadberry, Stephen & Gupta, Bishnu, 2010. "Indian GDP, 1600 -1870: Some Preliminary Estimates Comparison with Britain," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 07, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    4. BROADBERRY, Stephen & FUKAO, Kyoji & GUAN, Hanhui, 2025. "Regional Variation and the Asian Little Divergence," Discussion Paper Series 764, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
    5. Peter H. Lindert, 2016. "Purchasing Power Disparity before 1914," NBER Working Papers 22896, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    6. Ewout Frankema & Marlous van Waijenburg, 2011. "African Real Wages in Asian Perspective, 1880-1940," Working Papers 0002, Utrecht University, Centre for Global Economic History.
    7. Jutta Bolt & Jan Luiten Zanden, 2014. "The Maddison Project: collaborative research on historical national accounts," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 67(3), pages 627-651, August.
    8. 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.
    9. Broadberry, Stephen & Gupta, Bishnupriya, 2010. "Indian GDP Before 1870: Some Preliminary Estimates and a Comparison with Britain," CEPR Discussion Papers 8007, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    10. Pim de Zwart, 2012. "Population, labour and living standards in early modern Ceylon: An empirical contribution to the divergence debate," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 49(3), pages 365-398, September.
    11. Pim de Zwart & Jan Lucassen, 2020. "Poverty or prosperity in northern India? New evidence on real wages, 1590s–1870s," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 73(3), pages 644-667, August.

  7. Roy, T., 1998. "Economic Reforms and the Textile Industry in India," Papers 146, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research-.

    Cited by:

    1. Badri Narayanan G, 2005. "Effects of trade liberalisation, environmental and labour regulations on employment in India's organised textile sector," Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai Working Papers 2005-005, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India.
    2. Meenu Tewari, 2005. "Post-MFA Adjustments in India's Textile and Apparel Industry: Emerging Issues and Trends," Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, New Delhi Working Papers 167, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, New Delhi, India.

  8. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. G. Manish, 2014. "Qualitative aspects of the Indian growth spurt of the 1980s," The Review of Austrian Economics, Springer;Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, vol. 27(3), pages 325-340, September.

  9. 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-.

    Cited by:

    1. Christopher J. Green & Victor Murinde, 2003. "Flow of funds: implications for research on financial sector development and the real economy," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 15(8), pages 1015-1036.
    2. Moore, Tomoe & Green, Christopher J. & Murinde, Victor, 2006. "Financial sector reforms and stochastic policy simulations: A flow of funds model for India," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 28(3), pages 319-333, April.
    3. Nik Azman, Nik Hadiyan & Md Zabri, Mohd Zaidi & Zull Kepili, Ema Izati, 2021. "Nexus between Islamic Microfinancing and Financial Wellbeing of Micro-Entrepreneurs during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Malaysia," Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, vol. 55(1), pages 135-146.
    4. Tomoe Moore & Christopher Green & Victor Murinde, 2005. "Portfolio Behaviour in a Flow of Funds Model for the Household Sector in India," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(4), pages 675-702.
    5. Naastepad, C. W. M., 2002. "Trade-offs in stabilisation: a real-financial CGE analysis with reference to India," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 19(2), pages 221-244, March.
    6. C. W. M. Naastepad, 2003. "Restoring Macroeconomic Stability through Fiscal Adjustment: a Real–Financial CGE Analysis for India," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 7(3), pages 445-461, August.

  10. Roy, T., 1992. "Price Movements in Early Twentieth Century in India," Papers 80, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research-.

    Cited by:

    1. Kumar, Rishabh, 2019. "The evolution of wealth-income ratios in India 1860-2012," SocArXiv sj6h2, Center for Open Science.

  11. Roy, T. & Sen, K., 1991. "Changes in Saving-Rate and its Implications for Growth," Papers 44, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research-.

    Cited by:

    1. Xiang, Diling & He, Xinao & Shi, Mengjie, 2024. "Deciphering the resource wealth enigma: Unraveling the interplay of institutional quality, economic diversity, and R&D in mitigating the resource curse," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).

Articles

  1. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. Rezvan Khosravi & Arash Azari & Ali Bafkar, 2024. "A New Flexible and Widely Software to Achieve Sustainable Agriculture based on Water-Energy-Food Nexus," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 38(13), pages 5123-5141, October.

  2. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. Ratnoo, Vigyan D., 2024. "Persistent effects of colonial land tenure institutions: Village-level evidence from India," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 168(C).

  3. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. Latika Chaudhary & Jared Rubin & Sriya Iyer & Anand Shrivastava, 2018. "Culture and Colonial Legacy: Evidence from Public Goods Games," Working Papers 18-06, Chapman University, Economic Science Institute.

  4. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. Kenji Koike, 2018. "The Chinese and Indian Corporate Economies: A Comparative History of Their Search for Economic Renaissance and Globalization by Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown, London, Routledge, 2017, xvii + 471 pp," The Developing Economies, Institute of Developing Economies, vol. 56(2), pages 148-152, June.

  5. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. Vellore Arthi & Markus Lampe & Ashwin Nair & Kevin Hjortshøj, 2023. "Deliberate Surrender? The Impact of Interwar Indian Protection," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 134(657), pages 23-47.
    2. 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.
    3. Vellore Arthi & Markus Lampe & Ashwin Nair & Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke, 2020. "The Impact of Interwar Protection: Evidence from India," Working Papers 20200043, New York University Abu Dhabi, Department of Social Science, revised May 2020.

  6. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. 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.
    2. Rahul A Sirohi, 2024. "Corporate power and the rise of intangibles: A study of Indian firms," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 56(3), pages 865-882, May.

  7. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. Rishabh Kumar, 2020. "Top Indian wealth shares and inheritances 1966–1985," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 14(3), pages 551-580, September.

  8. 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.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  9. Roy, Tirthankar, 2014. "Trading Firms in Colonial India," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 88(1), pages 9-42, April.

    Cited by:

    1. Fenske, James & Kala, Namrata, 2017. "Linguistic Distance and Market Integration in India," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 331, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    2. Ilgaz Arikan & Oded Shenkar, 2022. "Neglected elements: What we should cover more of in international business research," Journal of International Business Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Academy of International Business, vol. 53(7), pages 1484-1507, September.
    3. 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.
    4. Milan Balaban & Jan Herman & Dalibor Savic´, 2021. "The early decades of the Bata Shoe Company in India: From establishment to economic and social integration," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 58(3), pages 297-332, July.

  10. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. Alvaredo, Facundo & Bergeron, Augustin & Cassan, Guilhem, 2017. "Income concentration in British India, 1885–1946," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 127(C), pages 459-469.
    2. Fredriksson, Per G. & Gupta, Satyendra Kumar, 2022. "Land productivity and colonization," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 113(C).
    3. 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.
    4. 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.
    5. Jordi Caum‐Julio, 2024. "Can colonial institutions explain differences in labour returns? Evidence from rural colonial India," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 77(1), pages 288-316, February.
    6. Shree Saha, 2019. "Historical institutions and electoral outcomes the case of India after decolonization," Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai Working Papers 2019-033, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India.

  11. 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.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  12. Tirthankar Roy, 2011. "Indigo and law in colonial India," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 64, pages 60-75, February.

    Cited by:

    1. Jagjeet Lally, 2015. "Trial, error and economic development in colonial Punjab: The Agri-Horticultural Society, the state and sericulture experiments, c. 1840–70," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 52(1), pages 1-27, January.
    2. Singh, Bhanu Pratap, 2017. "The Political Economy of Indigo farming in India and Champaran Satyagraha," MPRA Paper 100408, University Library of Munich, Germany.

  13. 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. See citations under working paper version above.
  14. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. 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.
    2. Osamu Saito, 2015. "Growth and inequality in the great and little divergence debate: a Japanese perspective," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 68(2), pages 399-419, May.
    3. 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.

  15. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. 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.

  16. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. Gupta, Bishnupriya, 2018. "Falling Behind and Catching up: India’s Transition from a Colonial Economy," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 355, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    2. Gupta, Bishnupriya, 2018. "Falling Behind and Catching up: India’s Transition from a Colonial Economy," CEPR Discussion Papers 12581, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    3. Hutkova, Karolina, 2021. "West Indies technologies in the East Indies: imperial preference and sugar business in Bihar, 1800-1850s," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 110453, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

  17. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. Alvaredo, Facundo & Bergeron, Augustin & Cassan, Guilhem, 2017. "Income concentration in British India, 1885–1946," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 127(C), pages 459-469.
    2. 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.
    3. Osamu Saito, 2015. "Growth and inequality in the great and little divergence debate: a Japanese perspective," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 68(2), pages 399-419, May.
    4. Rishabh Kumar, 2018. "Poor country, rich history, many lessons: The evolution of wealth-income ratios in India 1860-2012," Working Papers 1802, New School for Social Research, Department of Economics.
    5. Jordi Caum-Julio, 2024. "Land revenue, inequality, and development in colonial India (1880–1910)," European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society, vol. 28(2), pages 300-302.
    6. Jordi Caum‐Julio, 2024. "Can colonial institutions explain differences in labour returns? Evidence from rural colonial India," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 77(1), pages 288-316, February.

  18. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. Stephen Morgan & Martin Shanahan, 2010. "The Supply Of Economic History In Australasia: The Australian Economic History Review At 50," Australian Economic History Review, Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 50(3), pages 217-239, November.

  19. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. Clingingsmith, David & Williamson, Jeffrey G., 2017. "Deindustrialization in 18th and 19th Century India: Mughal Decline, Climate Shocks and British Industrial Ascent," SocArXiv jy7u8, Center for Open Science.
    2. David Clingingsmith & Jeffrey G. Williamson, 2004. "India's De-Industrialization Under British Rule: New Ideas, New Evidence," NBER Working Papers 10586, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    3. Paul, Saumik, 2016. "1930-1943: Agrarian Transformation and the Famine in Bengal," CEI Working Paper Series 2016-11, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
    4. Swayam Prava Das, 2023. "City connectivity via global intra‐firm linkages: An analysis of Indian cities," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 35(2), pages 312-330, March.
    5. Gupta, Bishnupriya, 2018. "Falling Behind and Catching up: India’s Transition from a Colonial Economy," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 355, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    6. Jain, Tarun, 2011. "Common tongue: The impact of language on economic performance," MPRA Paper 34423, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    7. Hassan, Samir Ul & Khanday, Shafi Ahmad & Ahmad, Masroor & Mishra, Biswambhara & Rymbai, Motika Sinha, . "A Historical Cum Empirical Overview of Agriculture Spending and Output Nexus in India," AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Economics and Management, vol. 14(3).
    8. Sambit Bhattacharyya, 2020. "A History of Global Capitalism: Feuding Elites and Imperial Expansion," Working Paper Series 1020, Department of Economics, University of Sussex Business School.
    9. Shilpi Kapur & Sukkoo Kim, 2006. "British Colonial Institutions and Economic Development in India," NBER Working Papers 12613, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    10. Bhattacharyya, Sambit, 2011. "Five Centuries of Economic Growth in India: The Institutions Perspective," MPRA Paper 67901, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    11. Ayuso-Díaz, Alejandro, 2022. "Natural trading partners versus empires in East and Southeast Asia regional integration (1840-1938)," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Elsevier, vol. 63(C).
    12. Chakraborty, Shankha & Thompson, Jon C. & Yehoue, Etienne B., 2016. "The culture of entrepreneurship," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 163(C), pages 288-317.
    13. Clingingsmith, David & Williamson, Jeffrey G., 2008. "Deindustrialization in 18th and 19th century India: Mughal decline, climate shocks and British industrial ascent," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 45(3), pages 209-234, July.
    14. Matthew McCartney, 2018. "The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): Considering Contemporary Pakistan through Old-Fashioned Economics and Historical Case Studies," Lahore Journal of Economics, Department of Economics, The Lahore School of Economics, vol. 23(2), pages 19-48, July-Dec.
    15. Rishabh Kumar, 2020. "Top Indian wealth shares and inheritances 1966–1985," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 14(3), pages 551-580, September.
    16. Gupta, Bishnupriya, 2018. "Falling Behind and Catching up: India’s Transition from a Colonial Economy," CEPR Discussion Papers 12581, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    17. Shrotryia Vijay Kumar & Singh Shashank Vikram Pratap, 2020. "A Short History of India’s Economy: Pre- and Post-Independence Period," Economic and Regional Studies / Studia Ekonomiczne i Regionalne, Sciendo, vol. 13(4), pages 388-406, December.
    18. Ghoshray, Atanu, 2015. "A robust estimation of the terms of trade between the United Kingdom and British India, 1858–1947," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 53-57.
    19. Gulshan Sachdeva, 2008. "India and the European Union," International Studies, , vol. 45(4), pages 341-367, October.
    20. Murat Arsel & Vijay Kumar Nagaraj, 2015. "Forum 2015," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 46(4), pages 585-617, July.
    21. GUISAN, Carmen & Neira, Isabel, 2006. "Direct and Indirect Effects of Human Capital on World Development, 1960-2004," Applied Econometrics and International Development, Euro-American Association of Economic Development, vol. 6(1), pages 17-34.
    22. Hun-Chang Lee, 2007. "The Political Economy of Pre-industrial Trade in Northeast Asia," Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series d07-219, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.

  20. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. 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.
    2. 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.
    3. Abhradip Banerjee & Gopalkrishna Chakrabarti, 2022. "The Sociotechnical System of Silk Weaving in Bishnupur Region in West Bengal," Journal of South Asian Development, , vol. 17(1), pages 108-133, April.

  21. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. 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.

  22. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. Chikayoshi Nomura, 2011. "Selling steel in the 1920s," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 48(1), pages 83-116, January.

  23. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. Anand V. Swamy & Rachel E. Kranton, 2006. "Contracts, Hold-Up, and Exports: Textiles and Opium in Colonial India," Department of Economics Working Papers 2006-05, Department of Economics, Williams College.
    2. Arora, Saurabh & Sanditov, Bulat, 2009. "Caste as Community? Networks of social affinity in a South Indian village," MERIT Working Papers 2009-037, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).

  24. 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.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  25. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. Devesh Kapur, 2020. "Why Does the Indian State Both Fail and Succeed?," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 34(1), pages 31-54, Winter.

  26. Tirthankar Roy, 1995. "Price movements in early twentieth-century India," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 48(1), pages 118-133, February.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  27. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. 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.

Chapters

  1. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. Scarborough, William J. & Crabbe, Rowena, 2021. "Place brands across U.S. cities and growth in local high-technology sectors," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 130(C), pages 70-85.

  2. Tirthankar Roy, 2017. "Growth and Development," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: The Economy of South Asia, chapter 5, pages 95-127, Palgrave Macmillan.

    Cited by:

    1. Liwiusz Wojciechowski, 2017. "Productivity gap: chance or obstacle in absorbing benefits from FDI in host country," Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, Centre for Strategic and International Entrepreneurship at the Cracow University of Economics., vol. 5(4), pages 153-170.
    2. Michael Fritsch & Alina Sorgner & Michael Wyrwich, 2018. "Self-Employment and Well-Being Across Institutional Contexts," Jena Economics Research Papers 2018-005, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.
    3. Estrin, Saul & Korosteleva, Julia & Mickiewicz, Tomasz, 2022. "Schumpeterian entry: innovation, exporting, and growth aspirations of entrepreneurs," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 104043, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    4. Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin, 2019. "Trade Liberalization: Is It Desirable for All Developing Economies?: A Literature Review," Research in World Economy, Research in World Economy, Sciedu Press, vol. 10(3), pages 199-204, December.
    5. Valentina Diana Rusu & Adina Dornean, 2019. "The Quality of Entrepreneurial Activity and Economic Competitiveness in European Union Countries: A Panel Data Approach," Administrative Sciences, MDPI, vol. 9(2), pages 1-21, April.
    6. Louail Bilal & Zouita Mohamed Salah, 2021. "The relationship between foreign direct investment, financial development and growth economic in Next-11 Countries: a PMG/ARDL estimation," Management, Sciendo, vol. 25(1), pages 28-50, January.
    7. Giorgos Meramveliotakis & Manolis Manioudis, 2021. "Sustainable Development, COVID-19 and Small Business in Greece: Small Is Not Beautiful," Administrative Sciences, MDPI, vol. 11(3), pages 1-15, September.

  3. Tirthankar Roy, 2017. "The Green Revolution," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: The Economy of South Asia, chapter 7, pages 155-181, Palgrave Macmillan.

    Cited by:

    1. Mishra, Ashok K. & Mayorga, Joaquin & Kumar, Anjani, 2021. "Technology and Managerial Gaps in Contract Farming:The Case of Specialty Crop Production," Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Western Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 47(01), January.

  4. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. Dincecco, Mark & Fenske, James & Menon, Anil & Mukherjee, Shivaji, 2020. "Pre-Colonial Warfare and Long-Run Development in India," The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) 1272, University of Warwick, Department of Economics.
    2. Ma, Debin & Chen, Shuo, 2020. "States and Wars: China’s Long March towards Unity and its Consequences, 221 BC – 1911 AD," CEPR Discussion Papers 15187, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    3. Ticku, R. & Shrivastava, A. & Iyer, S., 2018. "Economic Shocks and Religious Conflict in Medieval India," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 1862, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.
    4. Shuo, Chen & Ma, Debin, 2020. "States and Wars: China’s Long March towards Unity and its Consequences, 221 BC – 1911 AD," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 505, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).

Books

  1. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. Shruti Rajagopalan, 2023. "Mises's dynamics of interventionism: Lessons from Indian agriculture," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 89(3), pages 657-679, January.

  2. Tirthankar Roy, 2019. "How British Rule Changed India’s Economy," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, Palgrave Macmillan, number 978-3-030-17708-9, May.

    Cited by:

    1. Colleoni, Marco, 2024. "The long-term welfare effects of colonial institutions: Evidence from Central India," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 166(C).

  3. Roy,Tirthankar, 2018. "A Business History of India," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781316637487, January.

    Cited by:

    1. Nogues-Marco, Pilar, 2020. "Measuring colonial extraction: the east India company's rule and the drain of wealth (1757-1858)," Working Papers unige:144406, University of Geneva, Paul Bairoch Institute of Economic History.
    2. 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.
    3. Rishabh Kumar, 2020. "Top Indian wealth shares and inheritances 1966–1985," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 14(3), pages 551-580, September.
    4. Milan Balaban & Jan Herman & Dalibor Savic´, 2021. "The early decades of the Bata Shoe Company in India: From establishment to economic and social integration," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 58(3), pages 297-332, July.
    5. Aldous, Michael & Conroy, Kieran M., 2021. "Navigating institutional change: An historical perspective of firm responses to pro-market reversals," Journal of International Management, Elsevier, vol. 27(2).
    6. Nogues-Marco, Pilar, 2020. "Measuring Colonial Extraction: The East India Company’s Rule and the Drain of Wealth (1757-1858)," CEPR Discussion Papers 15431, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.

  4. Roy,Tirthankar, 2018. "A Business History of India," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781107186927, January.

    Cited by:

    1. Nogues-Marco, Pilar, 2020. "Measuring colonial extraction: the east India company's rule and the drain of wealth (1757-1858)," Working Papers unige:144406, University of Geneva, Paul Bairoch Institute of Economic History.
    2. 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.
    3. Rishabh Kumar, 2020. "Top Indian wealth shares and inheritances 1966–1985," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 14(3), pages 551-580, September.
    4. Milan Balaban & Jan Herman & Dalibor Savic´, 2021. "The early decades of the Bata Shoe Company in India: From establishment to economic and social integration," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 58(3), pages 297-332, July.
    5. Aldous, Michael & Conroy, Kieran M., 2021. "Navigating institutional change: An historical perspective of firm responses to pro-market reversals," Journal of International Management, Elsevier, vol. 27(2).
    6. Nogues-Marco, Pilar, 2020. "Measuring Colonial Extraction: The East India Company’s Rule and the Drain of Wealth (1757-1858)," CEPR Discussion Papers 15431, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.

  5. Tirthankar Roy, 2017. "The Economy of South Asia," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, Palgrave Macmillan, number 978-3-319-54720-6, May.

    Cited by:

    1. Ditte Brøgger, 2019. "Unequal urban rights: Critical reflections on property and urban citizenship," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 56(14), pages 2977-2992, November.
    2. Allauddin Kakar & Anwar Khan & Akbar Khan, 2024. "Analyzing the Role of Governance, ICT, and Urbanization on Environment in South Asian Countries," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 15(1), pages 2682-2703, March.

  6. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. Kaushik Basu, 2018. "A short history of India's economy: A chapter in the Asian drama," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2018-124, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    2. Gupta, Bishnupriya & Mookherjee, Dilip & Munshi, Kaivan & Sanclemente, Mario, 2022. "Community origins of industrial entrepreneurship in colonial India," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 159(C).
    3. Olmstead, Alan L. & Rhode, Paul W., 2018. "Cotton, slavery, and the new history of capitalism," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 67(C), pages 1-17.
    4. Grajzl, Peter & Murrell, Peter, 2025. "From status to contract? A macrohistory from early-modern English caselaw and print culture," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 97(C).
    5. Hajime Sato, 2022. "Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy: India 1947 and Beyond by Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy , Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2021, ix + 298 pp," The Developing Economies, Institute of Developing Economies, vol. 60(4), pages 270-272, December.
    6. Gupta, Bishnupriya & Mookherjee, Dilip & Munshi, Kaivan & Sanclemente, Mario, 2019. "Community Origins of Industrial Entrepreneurship in Pre-Independence India," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 402, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    7. 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.
    8. Jordi Caum‐Julio, 2024. "Can colonial institutions explain differences in labour returns? Evidence from rural colonial India," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 77(1), pages 288-316, February.
    9. Rishabh Kumar, 2020. "Top Indian wealth shares and inheritances 1966–1985," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 14(3), pages 551-580, September.

  7. Roy,Tirthankar, 2012. "India in the World Economy," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781107401471, January.

    Cited by:

    1. Ronald Findlay, 2018. "Asia and the world economy in historical perspective," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2018-85, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    2. Fenske, James & Kala, Namrata, 2017. "Linguistic Distance and Market Integration in India," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 331, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    3. Jagjeet Lally, 2015. "Trial, error and economic development in colonial Punjab: The Agri-Horticultural Society, the state and sericulture experiments, c. 1840–70," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 52(1), pages 1-27, January.
    4. Fenske, James & Kala, Namrata & Wei, Jinlin, 2021. "Railways and cities in India," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 559, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    5. Sujit Raghunathrao Jagadale & Himadri Roy‐Chaudhuri & Djavlonbek Kadirov, 2021. "Quality‐of‐life as chronotopefication and futurization: Subsistence consumer experiences in India," Journal of Consumer Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 55(1), pages 59-86, March.
    6. 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.
    7. Feiyang Shi, 2022. "Import Shock and Local Labour Market Outcomes: A Sino-Indian Case Study," IHEID Working Papers 04-2022, Economics Section, The Graduate Institute of International Studies.

  8. Roy,Tirthankar, 2012. "India in the World Economy," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781107009103, January.

    Cited by:

    1. Ronald Findlay, 2018. "Asia and the world economy in historical perspective," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2018-85, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    2. Fenske, James & Kala, Namrata, 2017. "Linguistic Distance and Market Integration in India," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 331, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    3. Jagjeet Lally, 2015. "Trial, error and economic development in colonial Punjab: The Agri-Horticultural Society, the state and sericulture experiments, c. 1840–70," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 52(1), pages 1-27, January.
    4. Fenske, James & Kala, Namrata & Wei, Jinlin, 2021. "Railways and cities in India," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 559, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    5. Sujit Raghunathrao Jagadale & Himadri Roy‐Chaudhuri & Djavlonbek Kadirov, 2021. "Quality‐of‐life as chronotopefication and futurization: Subsistence consumer experiences in India," Journal of Consumer Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 55(1), pages 59-86, March.
    6. 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.
    7. Feiyang Shi, 2022. "Import Shock and Local Labour Market Outcomes: A Sino-Indian Case Study," IHEID Working Papers 04-2022, Economics Section, The Graduate Institute of International Studies.

  9. Roy, Tirthankar, 2012. "Natural Disasters and Indian History: Oxford India Short Introductions," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198075370.

    Cited by:

    1. Sunil S. Amrith, 2018. "Risk and the South Asian monsoon," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 151(1), pages 17-28, November.
    2. 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.
    3. Ewout Frankema & Morten Jerven, 2014. "Writing history backwards or sideways: towards a consensus on African population, 1850–2010," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 67(4), pages 907-931, November.
    4. Tumbe, Chinmay, 2020. "Pandemics and Historical Mortality in India," IIMA Working Papers WP 2020-12-03, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Research and Publication Department.

  10. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. Karuna Dietrich Wielenga, 2015. "The geography of weaving in early nineteenth-century south India," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 52(2), pages 147-184, April.
    2. Chikayoshi Nomura, 2011. "Selling steel in the 1920s," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 48(1), pages 83-116, January.

  11. Roy, Tirthankar, 2010. "Company of Kinsmen: Enterprise and Community in South Asian History 1700-1940," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198063780.

    Cited by:

    1. Chikayoshi Nomura, 2014. "The origin of the controlling power of managing agents over modern business enterprises in colonial India," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 51(1), pages 95-132, January.
    2. Nair, Malavika, 2011. "Enforcement of nineteenth century banking contracts using a marriage rule," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 51(4), pages 360-367.

  12. Roy,Tirthankar, 2007. "Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9780521033053, January.

    Cited by:

    1. Karuna Dietrich Wielenga, 2015. "The geography of weaving in early nineteenth-century south India," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 52(2), pages 147-184, April.
    2. Vijay K. Seth, 2014. "Debate on De-industrialization Revisited: The Process of Decline of Traditional Flexible Manufacturing," Global Business Review, International Management Institute, vol. 15(3), pages 597-610, September.
    3. Roy, Tirthankar, 2014. "Technology in Colonial India: Three Discourses," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 198, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    4. Gupta, Bishnupriya, 2018. "Falling Behind and Catching up: India’s Transition from a Colonial Economy," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 355, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    5. Orlanda Ruthven, 2018. "Getting Dividend from Demography: Skills Policy and Labour Management in Contemporary Indian Industry," Journal of South Asian Development, , vol. 13(3), pages 315-336, December.
    6. 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.
    7. Tyabji, Nasir, 2015. "The Politics of Industry in Nehru's India," MPRA Paper 62260, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    8. Charu Gupta, 2010. "Feminine, criminal or manly?," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 47(3), pages 309-342, July.
    9. 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.
    10. 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.
    11. Srinivas, Smita, 2007. "Urban labour markets in the 21st century: dualism, regulation and the role(s) of the State," MPRA Paper 53099, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    12. Natalie Gupta, 2011. "A story of (foretold) decline:artisan labour in India," Global Development Institute Working Paper Series 15611, GDI, The University of Manchester.
    13. Gupta, Bishnupriya, 2018. "Falling Behind and Catching up: India’s Transition from a Colonial Economy," CEPR Discussion Papers 12581, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    14. Gadre, Animesh, 2021. "Deindustrialisation and the Drain Theory: The Contours of Economic Degradation in British India," MPRA Paper 108977, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    15. Shrotryia Vijay Kumar & Singh Shashank Vikram Pratap, 2020. "A Short History of India’s Economy: Pre- and Post-Independence Period," Economic and Regional Studies / Studia Ekonomiczne i Regionalne, Sciendo, vol. 13(4), pages 388-406, December.
    16. Milan Balaban & Jan Herman & Dalibor Savic´, 2021. "The early decades of the Bata Shoe Company in India: From establishment to economic and social integration," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 58(3), pages 297-332, July.
    17. Abhradip Banerjee & Gopalkrishna Chakrabarti, 2022. "The Sociotechnical System of Silk Weaving in Bishnupur Region in West Bengal," Journal of South Asian Development, , vol. 17(1), pages 108-133, April.
    18. David Clingingsmith, 2014. "Industrialization and Bilingualism in India," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 49(1), pages 73-109.

  13. Roy, Tirthankar, 2006. "The Economic History of India 1857-1947," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, edition 2, number 9780195684308.

    Cited by:

    1. Yatish Arya & Amit Chaudhary & Anisha Garg, 2025. "Religious Identity, Lost Learning: Evidence from Colonial India," Working Papers 138, Ashoka University, Department of Economics.
    2. Sumit K. Majumdar & Arnab Bhattacharjee, 2014. "Firms, Markets, and the State: Institutional Change and Manufacturing Sector Profitability Variances in India," Organization Science, INFORMS, vol. 25(2), pages 509-528, April.
    3. Paul, Saumik, 2016. "1930-1943: Agrarian Transformation and the Famine in Bengal," CEI Working Paper Series 2016-11, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
    4. Chinmay Tumbe, 2015. "Towards financial inclusion: The post office of India as a financial institution, 1880–2010," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 52(4), pages 409-437, October.
    5. Priyanka deSouza & Yadvinder Malhi, 2018. "Land Use Change in India (1700–2000) as Examined through the Lens of Human Appropriation of Net Primary Productivity," Journal of Industrial Ecology, Yale University, vol. 22(5), pages 1202-1212, October.
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  1. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic and Financial History (14) 2009-11-27 2011-12-13 2014-08-09 2016-08-28 2019-12-09 2020-01-20 2020-02-03 2020-10-26 2020-10-26 2021-09-13 2022-02-14 2022-09-19 2025-05-26 2025-08-11. Author is listed
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  3. NEP-AGR: Agricultural Economics (3) 2019-12-09 2020-01-20 2025-05-26
  4. NEP-GRO: Economic Growth (3) 2022-02-14 2022-09-19 2025-05-26
  5. NEP-ORE: Operations Research (2) 2020-02-03 2020-10-26
  6. NEP-CSE: Economics of Strategic Management (1) 2020-02-03
  7. NEP-CWA: Central and Western Asia (1) 2009-11-27
  8. NEP-EVO: Evolutionary Economics (1) 2022-09-19
  9. NEP-HME: Heterodox Microeconomics (1) 2014-08-09
  10. NEP-HPE: History and Philosophy of Economics (1) 2014-08-09
  11. NEP-INV: Investment (1) 2025-05-26
  12. NEP-ISF: Islamic Finance (1) 2021-09-13
  13. NEP-MON: Monetary Economics (1) 2016-08-28
  14. NEP-PAY: Payment Systems and Financial Technology (1) 2016-08-28
  15. NEP-SEA: South East Asia (1) 2025-08-11

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