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The Interwar Slump in India: The Periphery in a Crisis of Empire

In: The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump

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  • G. Balachandran

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India’s encounter with the Great Depression has unfortunately been of greater interest to students of the country’s history than to students of the interwar world economy. Historians of India have conventionally regarded the Depression as a turning point in the country’s political and economic history. Nationalist opposition to colonial rule intensified in the 1930s partly because of growing support from a peasantry burdened by falling prices and fixed rent and revenue liabilities. Thus, according to one view, the Depression ‘precipitated the end of empire’ (Rothermund, 1992). Nearly two decades later, the Depression also seemed to justify India’s resort to a strategy of import-substituting industrialization sustained by sales in the domestic market.

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  • G. Balachandran, 2003. "The Interwar Slump in India: The Periphery in a Crisis of Empire," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Theo Balderston (ed.), The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump, chapter 6, pages 143-171, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-53668-5_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230536685_6
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