Prices and economic fluctuations in India 1861-1947

Few books on Indian economic history give an analytical account of Indian economic developments in British India. This study which attempts such an analysis, is the outcome of the author's sustained interest in the growth of India's national Income and the various factors that shape its nature and distribution. It goes behind the economic forces gover ning the price changes, and the fluctuations in economic activity in India over the 90 years of the rule of the British Crown until Indian Independence in 1947. It examines the consequences of these price changes and the fluct uations in economic activity on the different classes of people.

This study is certain to be of immense interest to the professional economist, to the economic historian and to the layman alike, combining as it does the unique insights of an administrator and an economic analyst on the unfolding of Indian economic developments.