Inequality in colonial India
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Keywords
colonialism; inequality; British Empire; South Asia;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- N15 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Asia including Middle East
- N3 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2018-10-22 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-HIS-2018-10-22 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
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