Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The making of British India -- Chapter 3: The business of the cities -- Chapter 4: Unyielding land -- Chapter 5: A poor state -- Chapter 6: End of famine -- Chapter 7: A different story? The princely states -- Chapter 8: Conclusion

Capacity is the ability of the state to enforce the rule of law and intervene in the economy. It depends on the efficiency of the bureaucracy and military apparatus.I perform a regression-discontinuity analysis exploiting the variation in colonial regime types along the two banks of the main...