Tirthankar Roy
Current Research
Law and Economic Change in a Young Democracy: India since 1950
(with Anand Swamy). Book project under preparation
It is difficult to “do business” in India. How has the situation come to
be like this? In our previous book,
Law and the Economy in Colonial
India, we explored the colonial roots of this problem and told the
story up to 1947. This book
extends our analysis to roughly 2015. We explore how the colonial legacy
persisted and how it was reshaped by the democratic and
development-driven state. We show that many of these changes were
politically induced, which added rather than removed obstacles to
frictionless working of markets.
Climate and the Economy in India since 1850.
Book project under preparation
Explores the two-way interaction between environmental change and
economic change in South Asia, through the medium of water.
Reserve Bank of India 1997-2007
Book project under preparation
The history of the Indian central bank during financial markets
liberalization.
