A collection of Sir Alec Cairncross' most important contributions to the economic history of the post-1939 period. They demonstrate a keen insight into the changing role of the economist and the transformation of the economic landscape

Introduction -- Economic history and modern India : redefining the link -- Rural labour and colonialism -- Agricultural labour : lessons from wage data -- Was there an industrial decline in India in the early nineteenth century? -- Labour-intensive industrialization -- Women and...