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This book investigates the roots of rapid economic growth of India
in recent decades, by exploring historical processes from the late
colonial period. Based upon decades-long archival and field
research, this book deals with the period from the late nineteenth
century to 2013 and offers an integral viewpoint of the economic
history of India. While critiquing the conventional understanding
that links recent economic growth only with the development of
high-tech, export-oriented service sectors under the liberalised
economy, the book suggests deeper and wider roots of development
that had a cumulative effect in three stages. First, the agrarian
development and rural socio-economic changes from the end of the
nineteenth century. Second, the state-led import-substitution
industrialisation since 1950 that established the industrial
foundations for future economic growth. Third, the economic reforms
since 1991 that helped technology-intensive industries find new
markets with improved quality of production. For the first time
available in English, this book by the late Professor Haruka
Yanagisawa, who was a leading figure in the South Asia studies
collective in Japan, is an important contribution to the academic
tradition of economic history of India. It will be of interest to
researchers in the field of social and economic history, sociology,
anthropology and economies of South Asia.
The first systematic attempt to introduce a full range of Japanese
scholarship on the agrarian history of British India to the
English-language reader. Suggests the fundamental importance of an
Asian comparative perspective for the understanding of Indian
history.
Examining agrarian societies in colonial India, the papers in this
collection include analyses of late 18th-century records on South
India and North Bengal, and a look at the late colonial period.
Statistical examinations provide a basis for a revised
understanding of social mobility and land transfer, while a study
of technology and labour absorption, a demographic approach to
famines and epidemics, and a socio-political perspective of tenancy
acts blend history and social science. Four chapters compare the
Indian experience with those of Japan and other Asian countries,
which the editors use to argue for the historical presence of
internal forces of change in Indian agriculture, which has not been
fully recognized in either Western or nationalist historiography.
They suggest the fundamental importance of an Asian comparative
perspective for the understanding of Indian history.
In many traditional societies, certain resources are held in
common, with their use and disposition controlled by the community
collectively. Such common-pool resources have come to play a
significant element in programs of environmental preservation in
Asia, and for this reason historical changes in arrangements for
controlling them are of considerable importance. Through case
studies from Japan, Korea, Thailand, India and Bhutan, this volume
examines attitudes toward common-pool resources in different local
contexts, with a particular emphasis on forests and policies
relating to environmental conservation. The authors are specialists
on the regions they study who use historical documents in local
languages along with data collected during long-term fieldwork.
Their conclusions raise questions about understandings of natural
property resources based on dichotomous frameworks like "modern
versus traditional societies", "state versus community" and
"commercialization versus subsistence economies". The case studies
indicate that in pre-modern and early modern Asia natural resources
were frequently under free-access regimes, and that where systems
of control existed, subsequent institutional changes involved a
variety of sequences that cannot be summarized readily within a
simple modernist framework.
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