Download or read book The Development of Modern Industries in Bengal written by Indrajit Ray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bengal’s traditional industries, once celebrated worldwide, largely decayed under the backwash effects of the British Industrial Revolution in the first half of the nineteenth century. Although colonial ambivalence is often cited as an explanation, this study also shows that a series of new industries emerged during this period. The book reappraises the thesis of India’s deindustrialisation and discusses the development status of the traditional industries in the early nineteenth century, examines their technology, employment opportunities and marketing and, finally, analyses the underlying reasons for their decay. It offers a study of how traditional industries evolved into modern enterprises in a British colony, and contributes to the broader discussion on the global history of industrialisation. This book will be of interest to scholars of Indian economic history as well as those who seek to understand the widespread effects of industrialisation, especially in a colonial context.
Download or read book The Development of Modern Industries in Bengal written by Indrajit Ray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bengal's traditional industries, once celebrated worldwide, largely decayed under the backwash effects of the British Industrial Revolution in the first half of the nineteenth century. Although colonial ambivalence is often cited as an explanation, this study also shows that a series of new industries emerged during this period. The book reappraises the thesis of India's deindustrialisation and discusses the development status of the traditional industries in the early nineteenth century, examines their technology, employment opportunities and marketing and, finally, analyses the underlying reasons for their decay. It offers a study of how traditional industries evolved into modern enterprises in a British colony, and contributes to the broader discussion on the global history of industrialisation. This book will be of interest to scholars of Indian economic history as well as those who seek to understand the widespread effects of industrialisation, especially in a colonial context.
Download or read book Bengal Industries and the British Industrial Revolution 1757 1857 written by Indrajit Ray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to enlighten two grey areas of industrial historiography. Although Bengal industries were globally dominant on the eve of the industrial revolution, no detailed literature is available about their later course of development. A series of questions are involved in it. Did those industries decline during the spells of British industrial revolution? If yes, what were their reasons? If not, the general curiosity is: On which merits could those industries survive against the odds of the technological revolution? A thorough discussion on these issues also clears up another area of dispute relating to the occurrence of deindustrialization in Bengal, and the validity of two competing hypotheses on it, viz. i) the mainstream hypothesis of market failures, and ii) the neo-marxian hypothesis of imperialistic state interventions
Download or read book The Industrial Development of Bengal 1900 1939 written by A. Z. M. Iftikhar-ul-Awwal and published by A. Z. M. Iftikhar-ul-Awwal (Copyright). This book was released on 1982-12-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface: The present work examines the industrial experience of Bengal during the period 1900 to 1939 with particular emphasis on the role of the government as the main instrument for growth. For this work, available statistical material has been utilized for the sake of precision as well as to strengthen the qualitative evidence. The book contains eight chapters. While Chapter I builds up the case for industrial development, Chapter II examines in detail the industrial policy of the Bengal government in the light of its own limitations as a subordinate authority to the Government of India and that of Whitehall. Chapter III is an investigation of the labour market in Bengal with emphasis on the supply of labour to jute, tea and coal industries in relation to wages and conditions of work. In Chapter IV, I have examined the rates of profitability and security of industrial investments. In this chapter, I have also examined the financial institutions of the time and their role in the industrial development of the province. Chapter V points to some of the difficulties experienced by Indian entrepreneurs, and in the above light looks at their contribution to the larger industrial establishments of Bengal. The next two Chapters VI and VII examine the growth and development of the two biggest manufacturing industries of our period - jute and handloom cotton weaving industries. The concluding chapter is an estimate of the industrial progress made in the province during the period under review. This book is a slightly revised version of my Ph.D. thesis submitted to the University of London in 1978. In the preparation of this thesis, I have accumulated an enormous debt of gratitude to my Supervisor, Dr. K. N. Chaudhuri whose careful vigilance and timely intervention saved me from many factual errors and infelicities of style. My thanks are also due to Mr. I. B. Harrison, who went through some of my preliminary chapters during the absence of Dr Chaudhuri in 1975-76 and made many useful observations. I am also indebted to Dr. Sirajul Islam of Dhaka University for helping me with some necessary corrections. Here I take this opportunity also to express my deep gratitude to the UK Commonwealth Commission which offered me a scholarship for three years which enabled me to undertake this research work. Needless to say, without their financial help it would have been virtually impossible to pursue this course of studies. I also wish to thank the University of Dhaka for granting me the necessary study leave. There remains also a special group of people - without whose co-operation, patience and tolerance, this work would not have seen the light of day. In this group belong the library staff of the British Library (including the Newspaper Section at Colindale), Senate House Library, the library of the School of Oriental and African Studies, and particularly, the India Office Library and Records (including their Newspaper Section at the Bush House). I take this opportunity to thank Mr. J. Sims of the India Office Library and Records for being so helpful in tracking down apparently untraceable official documents. I wish to thank the staff of the Bangladesh Secretariat Record Room and of the Secretariat Library, Dhaka for extending me all possible facilities in carrying out my research work. Finally, I owe a special debt of gratitude to my wife, Lilly whose support and constant encouragement over these years was invaluable in completing this work. - A. Z. M. Iftikhar-ul-Awwal
Download or read book Modern World System and Indian Proto industrialization Bengal 1650 1800 written by Abhay Kumar Singh and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study with special reference to maritime trade of Bengal, India with Netherlands in 17th century and with Great Britain in 18th century.
Download or read book The Decline of British Industrial Hegemony written by Indrajit Ray and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through two World Wars and the Great Depression, this book explores the turbulent history of colonial Indian industry in the period immediately prior to independence. Focusing on five major industries in Bengal - coal mining, iron-smelting, jute manufacturing, paper making and tea plantation – the book looks at the impact of the war efforts on production, employment and capital: some industries experienced rapid growth due to additional investment, others suffered due to the dislocation of markets. Moreover, by drawing lessons from the war economy (especially the dearth of various essential commodities including war materials), the colonial government took up various measures in the inter-war period to promote India’s domestic industries for the first time. Additionally, the book also argues that many of the expatriate firms in India became financially weak because of the Depression which paved the way for the ‘Indianisation’ of corporate houses. These elements were significant factors in the decline of British industrial hegemony in India and aided the de-colonisation process which followed. This book will be of interest to scholars of Indian economic history as well as those with wider interests in decolonisation, industrial history and the first half of the twentieth century.
Download or read book The Industrial Development of Bengal 1900 1939 written by A. Z. M. Iftikhar-ul-Awwal and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present work examines ...
Download or read book Modern Advertising and the Market for Audience Attention written by Zoe Sherman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern advertising was created in the US between 1870 and 1920 when advertisers and the increasingly specialized advertising industry that served them crafted means of reliable access to and knowledge of audiences. This highly original and accessible book re-centers the story of the invention of modern advertising on the question of how access to audiences was streamlined and standardized. Drawing from late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century materials, especially from the advertising industry’s professional journals and the business press, chapters on the development of print media, billboard, and direct mail advertising illustrate the struggles amongst advertisers, intermediaries, audience-sellers, and often-resistant audiences themselves. Over time, the maturing advertising industry transformed the haphazard business of getting advertisements before the eyes of the public into a market in which audience attention could be traded as a commodity. This book applies economic theory with historical narrative to explain market participants’ ongoing quests to expand the reach of the market and to increase the efficiency of attention harvesting operations. It will be of interest to scholars of contemporary American advertising, the history of advertising more generally, and also of economic history and theory.
Download or read book Rural Industrialisation in West Bengal written by Pradip Kumar Biswas and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the pattern and basis of rural industrialisation in West Bengal. Existence of long tradition of crafts, indigenous institutions of skill formation, of trading, of social and community networks of the petty producers, helped a rapid growth of the industries given the favourable conditions created by the state in the 1970s and 1980s. Analysing the experience of England, Japan and China, the book identifies factors like, slow growth of agriculture, ineffective and often contradictory state polices of innovations and training, incentives, credit and reservation as being primarily responsible for the poor performance of the Indian rural industries. These problems notwithstanding, West Bengal government s active role, made a favourable impact on rural industries. The institutions such as master traders systems and cooperatives facilitated innovation and skill upgradation, smooth adoption of improved technology, promotion of new products. But, due to overall change in the attitude and economic policy of the country towards free market without preparation at the ground level, the rural industries, start declining.
Download or read book Social Science History 8 written by Social Science History Association and published by Ratna Sagar. This book was released on 1968 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Spread of Modern Industry to the Periphery Since 1871 written by Kevin H. O'Rourke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Ever since the Industrial Revolution of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, industrialization has been the key to modern economic growth. The fact that modern industry originated in Britain, and spread initially to north-western Europe and North America, implied a dramatic divergence in living standards between the industrial North (or West) and a non-industrial, or even de-industrializing, South (or Rest). This nineteenth-century divergence, which had profound economic, military, and geopolitical implications, has been studied in great detail by many economists and historians. Today, this divergence between the West and the Rest is visibly unraveling, as economies in Asia, Latin America and even sub-Saharan Africa converge on the rich economies of Europe and North America. This phenomenon, which is set to define the twenty-first century, both economically and politically, has also been the subject of a considerable amount of research. Less appreciated, however, are the deep historical roots of this convergence process, and in particular of the spread of modern industry to the global periphery. This volume fills this gap by providing a systematic, comparative, historical account of the spread of modern manufacturing beyond its traditional heartland, to Southern and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, or what we call the poor periphery. It identifies the timing of this convergence, finding that this was fastest in the interwar and post-World War II years, not the more recent miracle growth years. It also identifies which driving forces were common to all periphery countries, and which were not.
Download or read book Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India written by Tirthankar Roy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of workers in South Asia are employed in industries that rely on manual labour and craft skills. Some of these industries have existed for centuries and survived great changes in consumption and technology over the last 150 years. In earlier studies, historians of the region focused on mechanized rather than craft industries, arguing that traditional manufacturing was destroyed or devitalized during the colonial period, and that modern industry is substantially different. Exploring new material from research into five traditional industries, Tirthankar Roy s book contests these notions, demonstrating that while traditional industry did evolve during the Industrial Revolution, these transformations had a positive rather than destructive effect on manufacturing generally. In fact, the book suggests, the major industries in post-independence India were shaped by such transformations. Tirthankar Roy s book offers new and penetrating insights into India s economic and social history.
Download or read book Modern History Spectrum Short Notes Quick Revision Faster Recall for UPSC IAS State PCS OPSC TPSC KPSC WBPSC MPPSC MPSC CDS CAPF UPPCS BPSC NET JRF Exam College School written by Team Arora IAS and published by Arora IAS . This book was released on 2023-02-18 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Index Chapter-1 : Sources for the History of Modern India (Page:1 to 3) Chapter-2 : Major Approaches to the History of Modern India (Page:3 to 4) Chapter-3 : Advent of the Europeans in India (Page:4 to 9) Chapter-4 : Indian on the eve of British Conquest (Page:9 to 13) Chapter-5 : Expansion and Consolidation of British Power in India (Page:13 to 26) Chapter-6 : People’s Resistance Against British Before 1857 (Page:26 to 34) Chapter-7 : The Revolt of 1857 (Page:34 to 38) Chapter-8 : Socio-Religious Reform Movements: General Features (Page:38 to 42) Chapter-9 : A General Survey of Socio- Cultural Reform Movements (Page:42 to 49) Chapter-10 : Beginning of Modern Nationalism in India (Page:49 to 51) Chapter-11 : Indian National Congress: Foundation and the Moderate Phase (Page:51 to 53) Chapter-12 : Era of Militant Nationalism-(1905-1909) (Page:53 to 58) Chapter-13 : First Phase of Revolutionary Activities (1907-1917) (Page:58 to 60) Chapter-14 : First World War and Nationalist Response (Page:60 to 63) Chapter-15 : Emergence of Gandhi (Page:63 to 68) Chapter-16 : Non-Cooperation Movement and Khilafat Aandolan (Page:68 to 71) Chapter-17 : Emergence of Swarajists, Socialist Ideas, Revolutionary Activities and Other New Forces (Page:71 to 75) Chapter-18 : Simon Commission and the Nehru Report (Page:76 to 78) Chapter-19 : Civil Disobedience Movement and Round Table Conferences (Page:78 to 86) Chapter-20 : Debates on the Future Strategy after Civil Disobedience Movement (Page:86 to 89) Chapter-21 : Congress Rule in Provinces (Page:89 to 90) Chapter-22 : Nationalist Response in the Wake of World War II (Page:91 to 95) Chapter-23 : Quit India Movement, Demand for Pakistan, and the INA (Page:95 to 99) Chapter-24 : Post-War National Scenario (Page:99 to 104) Chapter-25 : Independence with Partition (Page:104 to 106) Chapter-26 : Constitutional, Administrative and Judicial Developments (Page:106 to 115) Chapter-27 : Survey of British Policies in India (Page:115 to 117) Chapter-28 : Economic Impact of British Rule in India (Page:117 to 119) Chapter-29 : Development of Indian Press (Page:119 to 121) Chapter-30 : Development of Education (Page:121 to 124) Chapter-31 : Peasant Movements 1857-1947 (Page:124 to 126) Chapter-32 : The Movement of the Working Class (Page:126 to 127) Chapter-33 : Challenges Before the New-born Nation (Page:127 to 128) Chapter-34 : The Indian States (Page:128 to 130) Chapter-35 : Making of the Constitution for India (Page:130 to 131) Chapter-36 : The Evolution of Nationalist Foreign Policy (Page:131 to 133) Chapter-37 : First General Elections (Page:133 to 134) Chapter-38 : Developments under Nehru’s Leadership (1947-64) (Page:134 to 137)
Download or read book Let There Be Light Engineering Entrepreneurship and Electricity in Colonial Bengal 1880 1945 written by Suvobrata Sarkar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the correlation between technological knowledge and industrial performance, with the focus on electricity, an emerging technology during 1880 and 1945.
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