Parching the Land
The Chettiars in Burma
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20437217 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sean Turnell (0000-0002-2865-1089, Macquarie University), Alison Vicary (0000-0002-5976-9557, Macquarie University) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-25 |
| Publication date | 2008-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Economic History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-8992 • E-ISSN: 1467-8446 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-8446.2007.00232.x |
| OpenAlex | W2027442678 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 5 |
In the history of Burma's economy, few groups have been as vilified as the Chettiars. A community of Indian moneylenders, the Chettiars were crucial agents in transforming Burma into the rice bowl of Asia. Following the global depression of the 1930s, Burmese agriculture became severely distressed and wide‐scale loan default saw the transfer of much of Burma's cultivatable land to the Chettiars, who were demonised and made scapegoats for the vices of colonialism. The paper draws on the ‘information‐theoretic revolution’ in economics to reappraise the role of the Chettiars in Burma. We conclude the Chettiars merit history's better judgement
Ancient history · Archaeology · Burmese · Colonialism · Depression (economics) · Development economics · Economics · Geography · Judgement · Keynesian economics · Loan · Political science · Southeast asia · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Finance · History · Law · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,69 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |