Classical Political Economy and British Policy in India
Part of Cambridge South Asian Studies
- Author: S. Ambirajan
- Date Published: March 2011
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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.
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- Date Published: March 2011
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511865244
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
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
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Index.
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