Towards a framework to debate world history: bringing South India and the Indian Ocean back in -- A stylized model of socio-historical change in societies based on wet-rice cultivation -- Regional variations -- European intrusion -- Theoretical implications -- Plan of the work -- Dynamics of...

"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...