Since the economic reforms of the 1990s, India's economy has grown rapidly. To sustain growth and foreign investment … contract enforcement and secure property rights. But it's widely acknowledged that India's legal infrastructure is in urgent … show how India inherited an elaborate legal system from the British colonial administration, which incorporated elements …

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The making of British India -- Chapter 3: The business of the cities -- Chapter 4 …This Palgrave Pivot revisits the topic of how British colonialism moulded work and life in India and what kind of … legacy it left behind. Did British rule lead to India’s impoverishment, economic disruption and famine? Under British rule …