Economic History of Modern India

Paper Code: 
24 HIS 423 (C)
Credits: 
04
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objectives

This course empowers students to trace pivotal aspects of the Indian economy during British rule from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century. It delves into fundamental economic transformations across agriculture, weaving, trade, finance, and labor. Additionally, students will critically assess British economic policies, including land revenue arrangements, industrialization, free trade, tariff structures, and policies of discriminatory protection, gaining insight into their profound impacts on colonial India's economic landscape.

 

Course Outcomes: 

Course Outcomes (CO)

Course

Outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course Title

24 HIS 423 (C)

 

Economic History of Modern India

 

CO202- Assess Indian Economy in the 18th Century Nature and Structure.

CO203-Examine processes leading to cottage industries' destruction, de-industrialization, and resultant consequences .

CO204- Delineate British land tenure policy, agrarian relations, commercialization of agriculture, and their effects

CO205- Evaluate Drain of Wealth's process and implications, and railways' development and impact.

CO206-Discuss Industrialization with special reference to Cotton Textiles and Jute Industry

CO207-Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction
  • Interactive Lectures
  • Group Discussions
  • Tutorials
  • Reading Assignments
  • Asking Effective questions
  • Documentary Screening
  • Power Point Presentation

 

Class test, Semester End Examinations, Class Assignment, Presentation, Individual and group projects, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials,

 

12.00

Indian Economy in the 18th Century Nature and Structure.

Early Phase of Colonial Economy.

 

 

12.00

Destruction of Cottage Industries. De-industrialization and its Consequences

12.00

Agrarian relation: British Land Tenure Policy: Permanent, Ryotwari and Mahalwari.

Commercialization of Agriculture and its effects.

Famines in British India

 

12.00

Drain of Wealth and its implications

Railways: British Construction Policy, Growth and impact.

 

12.00

Industrialization with special reference to Cotton Textiles and Jute Industry.

Policy of Free Trade, Tariff and Policy of Discriminatory Protection.

 

Essential Readings: 

Recommended Readings :

  • R.C. Dutt : Economic History of India
  • Pandey S.N., Economic History of Modern India, Readworthy publication, New Delhi, 2008
  • A.K. Bagchi : Private Investment in India 1909-1930
  • B.N. Ganguli : Dadabhai Naroji and the Drain Theory
  • Elizabeth Whitcombe : Agrarian Conditions in Northern India 1860-1900
  • Daniel and Alice : Land and Labour in India
  • Bipin Chandra : Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism in India
  • Dharma Kumar and Tapan Ray Choudhary (eds) : The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. II
  • Rajat K. Ray (ed) : Entrepreneurship and Industry in India, 1800-1947
  • A.R. Desai : Peasant Struggles in India
  • Dadabhai Naoroji : Poverty and Un-British Rule in India    

Indian Economy in the 18th Century Nature and Structure and Early Phase of Colonial Economy

Destruction of Cottage Industries. De-industrialization and its Consequences

Agrarian relation: British Land Tenure Policy: Permanent, Ryotwari and Mahalwari.

Commercialization of Agriculture and its effects

Famines in British India

Drain of Wealth and its implications

Railways: British Construction Policy, Growth and impact

Industrialization with special reference to Cotton Textiles and Jute Industry

 

 

Academic Year: 
2024-25
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