British Rule and Indian "Improvement".
In: Economic History Review, Jg. 34 (1981-11-01), Heft 4, S. 507-523
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The article provides information on the controversy of British colonialism and Indian poverty. In 1968 the controversy centred on an attempt by economist Morris D. Morris to question the most common view of the Indian economy, that at best it stagnated for much of the last century. In the case of agriculture, for example, the conclusion was that yields per acre were consistently low in terms of known techniques and in comparison with other underdeveloped countries, that absolute and proportionate expansion of non-food crops did not improve general productivity, that the proportion of the population directly dependent on agriculture increased, and that, except in the Punjab, cultivated area, production and national income declined relative to population growth after 1920. Morris dissented by suggesting that per capita income may have grown under British rule. His view was attacked by economist Tapan Raychaudhuri, among others. Raychaudhuri stressed Indian variety and the commercial development of some areas in the eighteenth century; he agreed that the nineteenth century probably saw an increase in per capita agricultural output, but doubted that it was substantial or fairly distributed, and attributed it largely to the shift to higher-value crops.
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British Rule and Indian "Improvement".
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Robb, Peter |
Zeitschrift: | Economic History Review, Jg. 34 (1981-11-01), Heft 4, S. 507-523 |
Veröffentlichung: | 1981 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 0013-0117 (print) |
DOI: | 10.2307/2595587 |
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