Much has been written on the Indian economy but this is the first major attempt to present India's economic history as a continuous process, and to place the de

Much has been written on the Indian economy but this is the first major attempt to present India's economic history as a continuous process, and to place the de

Volume 2 of The Cambridge Economic History of India covers the period 1757-1970, from the establishment of British rule to its termination, with epilogues on th

Examines the history of India during the period c. 1200-c. 1750.

The death of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in 1707 until the annexation of Maratha territories by the British East India Company in 1818 was a period of transiti