Results of the Kerala Model boasts literacy rates higher than the national average, including large public expenditures that have improved the social status of women in Kerala. Kerala’s source of economic growth can mainly be attributed to the high remittances owing to the large-scale...

Introduction -- Economic history and modern India : redefining the link -- Rural labour and colonialism -- Agricultural labour : lessons from wage data -- Was there an industrial decline in India in the early nineteenth century? -- Labour-intensive industrialization -- Women and...