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The series aims to publish short books on economic change in Indian states, integrating history, politics, and development in a single account. The books will synthesize material, including regional language ones, into an accessible story about how the economies of different states have changed in the last 70 years.

  • General Editors: Tirthankar Roy, London School of Economics and Political Science, Abhirup SarkarIndian, Statistical Institute Kolkata, India, Anand V. Swamy, Williams College, USA

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1 results in Economic Histories of Indian States

Kerala, 1956 to the Present
  • India's Miracle State
  • Tirthankar Roy, K. Ravi Raman
  • Published online:
    31 May 2024
    Print publication:
    28 November 2024
  • 'Kerala is different, but not in the way we think.' Economic change in this southern state has fascinated economists. Most studies focused on the state's unusual human development, asked how a poor and economically stagnant state could achieve high levels of education and healthcare and pointed to politics and government policy to answer the question. Little of that scholarship took history seriously. History, this book says, shows that the foundations of human development were laid before the formation of the state and were owed to many factors besides politics. The striking thing about the state is its unusual income growth, which has been faster than most states since the 1990s. The question the authors ask is, 'How could an income-poor state break out of stagnation so dramatically?' The answers consider past globalisation, labour mobility, a legacy of welfare spending, and the positive ways these features interacted since India's economic reforms.