Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Land Rights: Equity versus Transferability? -- Chapter 3. Rural Credit: Overreliance on Law -- Chapter 4. Democratic Rights and the Limits of Eminent Domain -- Chapter 5. Environmental Law: Judiciary Takes Center...

"Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy trace India's economic growth since 1947 and the legal reforms that have allowed it to settle in, however unevenly and tenuously, in the shadow of the stagnating effects of colonial rule. Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy portrays a long shadow of Indian...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The making of British India -- Chapter 3: The business of the cities -- Chapter 4: Unyielding land -- Chapter 5: A poor state -- Chapter 6: End of famine -- Chapter 7: A different story? The princely states -- Chapter 8: Conclusion