This book analyses critical aspects of the political economy of the colonial and the post-colonial period and focuses on the debates on the transition from one to the other. It discusses how Britain's shooting forward in the Great Divergence was predicated on the devastation of the colonial economy. This book explores various modes of colonial subjugation of the Indian economy. A major contribution is the study of the politics of the two contending classes--the capitalist class and the working class. This determined which class perspective exercised ideological hegemony or influence over the national movement and, consequently, over the post-colonial Indian state.

ISBN 13: 9789355721808

ISBN 10: 9355721803

Year: 2022

Language: ENGLISH

Pages etc.: xvi+575p., bib., ind., 24cm.

Binding: Hardbound

Subject(s): History