industrialised from the late eighteenth century and Asia did not. Drawing significantly from the case of India, Prasannan … institutions. It offers instead a groundbreaking rereading of global economic development that ranges from India, Japan and China …

-century India and Africa. Colonial institutions-the law, western style property rights, newspapers and statistical analysis … sociology" of India as a prelude to development. Indigenous ideologies and practices were as significant in this slow …

East India Company in 1757. Even after partition, in 1947, till the early 1950s, West Bengal's industrial contribution was … highest among all the states of India. Then the decline started. Few possible causes of the decline, both non-economic and …) Bengal centric parochial politics; (iv) the Union government's discriminatory policies against Bengal.Post colonial India has …