This paper concerns the institutional origins of economic development, emphasizing the cases of nineteenth-century India and Africa. Colonial institutions-the law, western style property rights, newspapers and statistical analysis-played an important part in the emergence of Indian public and...

This paper concerns the institutional origins of economic development, emphasizing the cases of nineteenth-century India and Africa. Colonial institutions - the law, western style property rights, newspapers and statistical analysis - played an important part in the emergence of Indian public...

This paper concerns the institutional origins of economic development, emphasising the cases of 19th-century India and Africa. Colonial institutions - the law, western style property rights, newspapers and statistical analysis - played an important part in the emergence of Indian public and...