The global crisis that broke out in 2008 raised many fundamental questions about the present economic order. This collection of articles from authors who include some of India's leading economic historians consists of studies in the growth of capitalism, the impact of colonialism, and the implications of the current phase of globalization for India and the world.
The contributors to this volume are: Irfan Habib, Utsa Patnaik, B. Surendra Rao, Raj Shekhar Basu, Sanjukta Das Gupta, Arun Bandopadhyay, Amar Farooqui, Prabhat Patnaik, Vamsi Vakulabharanam, Jayati Ghosh, and Shireen Moosvi, who has also edited the volume.
Price: $19.00
Pages: 204
Publisher: Tulika Books
Imprint: Tulika Books
Publication Date:
01 January 2011
Trim Size: 9.50 X 6.25 in
ISBN: 9789382381068
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, HISTORY / Asia / South / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
A critical discourse on the interconnectedness of capitalism,colonialism and globalisation with a well-defined focus.
Shireen Moosvi is professor of history at Aligarh Muslim University and is the author of The Mughal Empire, c. 1595: A Statistical Study (1987) and Taxation, Trade and People in Mughal India (2008). She has edited Facets of the Great Rebellion, 1857 (2009), and published a number of papers on colonial economic history and labor conditions. She has also published Episodes in the Life of Akbar (1994).
