Book of Donmon Teith

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 centurie

Earlier historians of India's economic history have argued that traditional manufacturing in India was destroyed or devitalized during the colonial period, and

A New Economic History of Colonial India provides a new perspective on Indian economic history. Using economic theory and quantitative methods, it shows how the

Samita Sen's history of labouring women in Calcutta in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped the

A history of artisan production in colonial and post-independence India, and its role in the country's society and economics.