"Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe industrialised from the late eighteenth century and Asia did not. Drawing significantly from the case of India, Prasannan Parthasarathi shows that in the seventeenth and eighteenth...

Cytoplasmic-genic male-sterility system has been extensively employed for the production of onion hybrids. Molecular marker assisted characterization of the cytotypes types and genotyping at the restorer-of male-fertility ( Ms) locus is important for accelerated breeding of onion hybrids. Indian...

Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Indian words and place names -- Note on money -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Weavers and merchants 1720-1760 -- The Weavers -- The weaver household -- The rhythms of...