South Asia and the ‘Great Divergence’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11283014 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C A Bayly (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 89-103 |
| Publication date | 2000-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Itinerario (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0165-1153 • E-ISSN: 2041-2827 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0165115300014510 |
| OpenAlex | W2037449506 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 28 |
Indian nationalism was born out of the notion that India's poverty and backwardness was not a natural result of technical inferiority or inefficient use of resources, but that it was a consequence of colonial rule. Even before the development of scientific nationalist economics in the 1890s, the moralists of Young Bengal had called for a protectionist ‘national political economy’ on the lines advocated by Friedrich List in Germany, whom they had read as early as 1850. Bholanath Chandra asserted in 1873 that India had once been the greatest textile producer in the world and had initiated the industrial revolution. By 1970,.he predicted, Britain would be eclipsed by the United States and by India as the greatest industrial producers. This would be brought about by rigorous protectionism and by the growth of what he called ‘moral hostility’ to the consumption of foreign goods which had even polluted the materials used in the making of the sacred threads of orthodox Hindus. This emphasis on the culture of consumption and the structure of external economic relations was central to different varieties of Indian nationalist thought as they developed from Dadhabhai Naoroji through to Mahatma Gandhi
Backwardness · BENGAL · China · Colonialism · Consumption (sociology · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic history · Economic nationalism · Economics · Economy · Geography · Great Divergence · International trade · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Protectionism · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Indian Economic and Social Development · Law · Social and Economic Development in India
Nature's government
Rulers, townsmen, and bazaars
The History, Antiquities, Topography, and Statistics of Eastern India
British Clubs and Societies 1580-1800
The Dutch East India Company and the Economy of Bengal, 1630-1720
Caste and Capitalism in Colonial India
The Great Divergence
Asia before Europe
A Fatal Friendship
The Oxford History of the British Empire
Peasant history in South India
Potentialities of Capitalistic Development in the Economy of Mughal India
Portfolio capitalists and the political economy of early modern India
Plough, Sword and Book. The Structure of Human History
The Industrial Revolution and the Industrious Revolution
Rural Industry and Commercial Agriculture in Late Seventeenth-Century South-Eastern India
Rethinking Wages and Competitiveness in the Eighteenth Century
Proto-Industrialization and Pre-Colonial South Asia
Military Mobilization in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century China, Russia, and Mongolia
Imperial Benevolence
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2006 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |