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Land revenues, schools and literacy

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  • Latika Chaudhary

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Despite the centralised nature of the fiscal system in colonial India, public education expenditures varied dramatically across regions with the western and southern provinces spending three to four times as much as the eastern provinces. A significant portion of the inter-regional difference was due to historical differences in land taxes, an important source of provincial revenues in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The large differences in public spending, however, did not produce comparable differences in enrolment rates or literacy in the colonial period. Nonetheless, public investments influenced the direction of school development and perhaps the long run trajectory of rural literacy.

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  • Latika Chaudhary, 2010. "Land revenues, schools and literacy," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 47(2), pages 179-204, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:sae:indeco:v:47:y:2010:i:2:p:179-204
    DOI: 10.1177/001946461004700202
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    1. Abhijit Banerjee & Lakshmi Iyer, 2005. "History, Institutions, and Economic Performance: The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 95(4), pages 1190-1213, September.
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