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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

34. South Asia

Author : Tirthankar Roy

Published in: An Economist’s Guide to Economic History

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter outlines two competing ways of studying the economic history of Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh. One of these starts from the premise that this is a geographically diverse landmass, home to an unequal and hierarchical society, ethnically very mixed, and an area that was never politically integrated until the late nineteenth century. The other says that no matter the diversity, scholars can still find an average to represent the whole region. The discussion concludes with advice on how not to study this world region.

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Footnotes
1
I confine to the three large mainland nations, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, whose combined territory roughly corresponds to that of India under British colonial rule, including the princely states.
 
2
Research on per capita income in South Asia has moved on since the work of Maddison. A state-of-the-art paper in this literature is Broadberry et al. (2015).
 
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Metadata
Title
South Asia
Author
Tirthankar Roy
Copyright Year
2018
Book
An Economist’s Guide to Economic History

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-96567-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-96568-0

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96568-0_34