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“Africa is part of South Asia just as South Asia is part of Africa” – Tirthankar Roy
No full textLSE’s Tirthankar Roy calls for greater historical consciousness of the centuries-old ties between India and African countries
“Natural disasters can produce lasting changes in economic systems” – Tirthankar Roy
No full textLSE’s Tirthankar Roy discounts the extent to which natural disasters are man-made and argues for greater scientific collaboration to help predict events in South Asia
Book review: The economic history of colonialism by Leigh Gardner and Tirthankar Roy
No full textIn The Economic History of Colonialism, Leigh Gardner and Tirthankar Roy offer a new historical account of the relationship between economic development and colonialism, showing how diverse processes of colonisation impacted on patterns of economic growth. Seeking to understand the roots of growth as well as poverty and inequality in formerly colonised nations as well as the origins of the environmental challenges we are facing in the current century, this book offers a nuanced study of the economic history of colonialism and its lasting legacies, finds Ritwika Patgiri. The Economic History of Colonialism. Leigh Gardner and Tirthankar Roy. Policy Press. 2021
Book review: law and the economy in colonial India by Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy
No full textIn Law and Economy in Colonial India, Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy explore the origins of British law and continued legal impediments of the Indian economy today. Reserving high praise for this nuanced book, Peter Robb finds it refreshing to encounter such dispassionate, evidence-based analysis of subjects that are so often treated through polemic
Economic history in South Asia: in conversation with Professor Tirthankar Roy
No full textEconomic history is a frequently overlooked branch of both history and economics. Amal Shahid recently spoke to LSE’s Tirthankar Roy about the value of studying the discipline in relation to South Asia, why it has been sidelined and what the UK and India can learn from each other about teaching it
A Business History of India
No full textIn recent decades, private investment has led to an economic resurgence in India. But this is not the first time the region has witnessed impressive business growth. There have been many similar stories over the past 300 years. India's economic history shows that capital was relatively expensive. How, then, did capitalism flourish in the region? How did companies and entrepreneurs deal with the shortage of key resources? Has there been a common pattern in responses to these issues over the centuries? Through detailed case studies of firms, entrepreneurs, and business commodities, Tirthankar Roy answers these questions. Roy bridges the approaches of business and economic history, illustrating the development of a distinctive regional capitalism. On each occasion of growth, connections with the global economy helped firms and entrepreneurs better manage risks. Making these deep connections between India's economic past and present shows why history matters in its remaking of capitalism today
The Economic History of India 1857 1947. By Tirthankar Roy. New Delhi: Oxford University Press India, 2001. Pp. xvi, 318. 16.99.
No full textAs Tirthankar Roy explains in his preface, this book aims to be no more than an updated and shorter version of the Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. II (henceforth CEHI), one that will provide an accessible textbook on the economic history of colonial India for the compulsory course in the subject in most Indian universities. In this task he has been successful. Instead of ploughing through the detailed chapters of the otherwise indispensable CEHI, students and their teachers now have a useful educational aid which summarizes the latest research by economic historians of India.
A history of capitalism in India
No full textLSE’s Tirthankar Roy draws out long-term patterns in Indian capitalism and uses history to contextualise India’s present-day economy
Modeling the neutral hydrogen distribution in the post-reionization Universe: intensity mapping
No full textWe model the distribution of neutral hydrogen (HI) in the post-reionization era and investigate its detectability in 21 cm intensity mapping with future radio telescopes like the Square Kilometer array (SKA). We rely on high resolution hydrodynamical N-body simulations that have a state-of-the-art treatment of the low density photoionized gas in the inter-galactic medium (IGM). The HI is assigned a-posteriori to the gas particles following two different approaches: a halo-based method in which HI is assigned only to gas particles residing within dark matter halos; a particle-based method that assigns HI to all gas particles using a prescription based on the physical properties of the particles. The HI statistical properties are then compared to the observational properties of Damped Lyman-alpha Absorbers (DLAs) and of lower column density systems and reasonable good agreement is found for all the cases. Among the halo-based method, we further consider two different schemes that aim at reproducing the observed properties of DLAs by distributing HI inside halos: one of this results in a much higher bias for DLAs, in agreement with recent observations, which boosts the 21 cm power spectrum by a factor similar to 4 with respect to the other recipe. Furthermore, we quantify the contribution of HI in the diffuse IGM to both Omega(HI) and the HI power spectrum finding to be subdominant in both cases. We compute the 21 cm power spectrum from the simulated HI distribution and calculate the expected signal for both SKAl-mid and SKAl-low configurations at 2.4 <= z <= 4. We find that SKA will be able to detect the 21 cm power spectrum, in the non-linear regime, up to k similar to 1h/Mpc for SKAl-mid and k similar to 5h/Mpc for SKAl-low with 100 hours of observations. We also investigate the perspective of imaging the HI distribution. Our findings indicate that SKAl-low could detect the most massive HI peaks with a signal to noise ratio (SNR) higher than 5 for an observation time of about 1000 hours at z = 4, for a synthesized beam width of 2'. Detection at redshifts z >= 2.4 with SKAl-mid would instead require a much longer observation time to achieve a comparable SNR level. © 2014 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab srl
The ‘Marwari’ business community is now a part of history
Full text linkTirthankar Roy looks at how the nature of the “business community” in India has evolved since the 19th century. He argues that modernisation and globalisation has resulted in a fundamental shift away from ethnic business networks to pan-Indian bodies
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