Tirthankar Roy
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
United Kingdom
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New books
The Crafts and Capitalism: Handloom Weaving Industry in Colonial India
(Routledge 2020).
ISBN: 978-0-367-36528-8 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-429-34683-5 (ebk)
It is often said that the British Industrial Revolution and the free
trade policy of British colonial rule in India had a profoundly
destructive effect on Indian artisanal weaving. Crafts and Capitalism
presents an alternative to this view, suggesting that handloom weaving
was a differentiated bundle of skills so that the effects of British
industrialization and free trade on it was differentiated too.
The Economic History of Colonialism
(with Leigh Gardner) (Bristol University Press 2020)
ISBN: 978-1529207644
Debates about the origins and legacies of European rule in the
non-European world have animated the field of economic history since the
1850s.
Since the 1990s, there has been a shift in perspective in the study of
the colonial legacy. Economic History of Colonialism is a
synthesis of this new understanding.
A Business History of India: Enterprise and the Emergence of Capitalism
from 1700
(Cambridge University Press, 2018)
ISBN: 9781316906903
In recent decades, private investment led an economic resurgence in
India. This was not the first time the region witnessed impressive
business growth. Evidence shows that capital was always costly in India.
How, then, did capitalism flourish? How did companies and entrepreneurs
deal with the shortage of key resources? Business History answers
these questions.