Railways were integral to the development of the Indian economy before World War I. This
article presents new estimates of total factor productivity (TFP) for railways from 1874 to …

The article explores the history of the Employees' State Insurance Act of 1948 (ESI), a law
enacted in the first year of Indian independence. Global trends in social policy had …

The aim of this article is to show the added value of global history that puts labour and
labour relations as independent variables in the centre and uses structured long-term data …

Page 1 DUNDEE AND THE EMPIRE ‘Juteopolis’ 1850–1939 JIM TOMLINSON Page 2 Dundee
and the Empire Page 3 Page 4 Dundee and the Empire ‘Juteopolis’ 1850–1939 Jim Tomlinson …

Industrial investment in colonial India was segregated by the export industries, such as tea
and jute that relied on British firms and the import substituting cotton textile industry that was …

In the post-war world, India was one of the most protectionist countries. Protectionism
originated in British colonial measures to design an industrialization policy in the 1920s …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the Bombay textile mills of the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to provide an account of the roots of business …

This chapter will describe cliometricians' contributions to the modern cotton textile industry. It
will not be an exhaustive discussion of the literature of even this subset of the topic of …

Abstract [eng] The paper analyses the correlation between labour productivity and wage
level in different economic activities across the country. It is agreed that there is dependence …

This chapter acts as an introduction to the history of India. The purpose is to provide a
backdrop upon which to discuss any economic failings contemporary India may have which …