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India in the early modern world economy: modes of production, reproduction and exchange

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India played a leading role in the growth of the early modern world economy. Yet its historiography has been dominated by forebodings of the colonial conquest and decline, which were to overtake it at the end of the eighteenth century. This essay seeks to explore the strengths rather than weaknesses of the Indian economy between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries when the goods which it produced were in heavy demand in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. However, it also points to ways in which specific features of India’s commercial development created vulnerabilities to conquest from overseas, which would be exploited later on.

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  • Washbrook, David, 2007. "India in the early modern world economy: modes of production, reproduction and exchange," Journal of Global History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 2(1), pages 87-111, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jglhis:v:2:y:2007:i:01:p:87-111_00
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    1. Karuna Dietrich Wielenga, 2015. "The geography of weaving in early nineteenth-century south India," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 52(2), pages 147-184, April.
    2. Chandan ROY, 2017. "The artisanal silk industry of West Bengal: A study of its history, performance and current problems," Turkish Economic Review, KSP Journals, vol. 4(4), pages 444-451, December.

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