Keynes's work on India before the First World War concentrated on analysis of the gold exchange standard and the … by the India Office in London. This policy, which was a typical example of public control over investments, occasioned …

When India became independent in 1947 after two centuries of colonial rule, it immediately adopted a firmly democratic … political system, with multiple parties, freedom of speech, and extensive political rights. The famines of the British era … achievable goal for India. In An Uncertain Glory, two of India's leading economists argue that the country's main problems lie in …

This paper analyze the colonial institutions set up by the British to collect land revenue in India, and show that …