"This new edition of An Economic History of Early Modern India extends the timespan of the analysis to incorporate … India Company. The author demonstrates that the fall of warlord-ruled states and the empowerment of the merchant, in … economic history of early modern India. It is an essential reference for students and scholars of Economics and South Asian …

the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and …, while colonial planters in India pushed for labor indenture laws to support factory-style tea plantations. Further …, characterizations of China and India as premodern backwaters, he explains, were themselves the historical result of new notions of …