Bibliographical essay

Summary

DEVELOPMENT AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT IN COLONIAL INDIA

There is no space here to list all the works that deal w i t h the economic history of modern India, from the mass of official publications by government and government agencies in India and Britain, through the sturdy classics of imperialism and nationalism that have dominated the historiography for most of the last hundred years, to the plethora of articles and specialist monographs that contain the results of painstaking and detailed qualitative, quantitative and theoretical research. A comprehensive five-volume bibliography for material published up to the 1970s is available in V.D. Divekar et al. (eds.), Annotated Bibliography on the Economic History of India, 1500 ad to 1947 ad, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Poona, and Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, 1977-80. Since the publication of this work there has been a spate of surveys and interpretative essays that have tried to summarise, establish, and contest the main lines of argument over the issues of development and underdevelopment in colonial South Asia, many of which have contained bibliographical material and literature summaries of their own.