Slow growth of agricultural income has contributed to poor economic growth and poverty in India in modern times. The … stagnation to institutions created during colonial rule in India. This article suggests, instead, that it derived from an …

cotton cloth in India during 1795-1940, and based on these numbers, revisits three issues central to interpretations of … economic change in colonial India. These are: (a) trends in levels of living, (b) the correlation between production of … textiles and consumption of textiles, and (c) consumption of clothing in India in relation to the rest of the world. …