Bengal Industries and the British Industrial Revolution (1757-1857)

NOTE EDITORE

This book seeks to enlighten two grey areas of industrial historiography. Although Bengal industries were globally dominant on the eve of the industrial revolution, no detailed literature is available about their later course of development. A series of questions are involved in it. Did those industries decline during the spells of British industrial revolution? If yes, what were their reasons? If not, the general curiosity is: On which merits could those industries survive against the odds of the technological revolution? A thorough discussion on these issues also clears up another area of dispute relating to the occurrence of deindustrialization in Bengal, and the validity of two competing hypotheses on it, viz. i) the mainstream hypothesis of market failures, and ii) the neo-marxian hypothesis of imperialistic state interventions.

SOMMARIO

1.Introduction 2. Bullion Movement in Bengal during 1660-18603. Woes of Cotton Textile Industry: Competitive failures or Policy Discriminations?4. Prosperous Silk Textile Industry:Traditional Edge of Comparative Advantages5. Decline of Salt Manufacturing Industry: An Episode of Policy Discriminations6. Ruin of the Shipbuilding Industry: Further Evidences of Discrimination7. The Development and Decayof Indigo-Dye Manufacturing Industry: Role of Imperial Governance8. Summary of Observations and Conclusions

AUTORE

Indrajit Ray is Professor in the Department of Commerce at the University of North Bengal, India.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780415594776
• Collana: Routledge Explorations in Economic History
• Dimensioni: 9.25 x 6.25 in Ø 1.35 lb
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 6 b/w images, 88 tables and 6 line drawings
• Pagine Arabe: 290
• Pagine Romane: xiv