Classical Political Economy and British Policy in India

Erscheinungsjahr 1978
ISBN: 978-0-521-21415-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Gewicht: 535 g

Reihe: Cambridge South Asian Studies

This book examines the effect of Classical political economy — the economic and monetary writings of Adam Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, the Mills and others — on the policy-making of the British government in India in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Professor Ambirajan shows how the economic doctrines of laissez-faire individualism and the freedom of market forces were instilled into the British administrative class. The East India Company's college at Haileybury was the most obvious agent but it is clear that a whole nexus of taught and unconscious attitudes predisposed the administrators to accept the ideas and ideologies of the economists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ambirajan, S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Economic ideas and British policy towards India; 3. Economic ideas and famine policy; 4. Economic ideas and economic relations; 5. Economic ideas and land taxation; 6. Economic ideas and taxation policies; 7. Political economy and a policy of economic development; 8. The state and the policy for economic development; 9. Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index.