Tirthankar Roy is a Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics. He has published widely on South Asian history, global history, empires, and environmental history. His publications include The Economy of South Asia: From 1950 to the Present (2017) and India in the World Economy from Antiquity to the Present (Cambridge, 2012).
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From the early twentieth century, a big part of the world--the arid tropics--began extracting, storing, and recycling vast quantities of water to sustain population growth and economic development. These regions worked on water to deal with seasonality, or the rotation...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-06-04

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Télécharger le livre :  The Economic History of India, 1857–2010

From the end of the eighteenth century, two distinct global processes began to transform livelihoods and living conditions in the South Asia region. These were the rise of British colonial rule and globalization, that is, the integration of the region in the emerging...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2020-09-10

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Télécharger le livre :  How British Rule Changed India's Economy

This Palgrave Pivot revisits the topic of how British colonialism moulded work and life in India and what kind of legacy it left behind. Did British rule lead to India’s impoverishment, economic disruption and famine? Under British rule, evidence suggests there...
Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2019-05-18

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Télécharger le livre :  The Economy of South Asia

This book explores the historical roots of rapid economic growth in South Asia, with reference to politics, markets, resources, and the world economy. Roy posits that, after an initial slow period of growth between 1950 and the 1980s, the region has been growing rapidly...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-08-05
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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