"This book examines the emergence of professional advertising in western India during the interwar period. It explores … sale of global commodities during the 1920s and 1930s, a time when advertising was first introduced in India as a … professional advertising- this book sheds new light on the global consumer economy in interwar India, and places developments in …

railway infrastructure in colonial India. Railways had an immediate impact on trade and development in the predominantly … agricultural India. In this paper, we show that the positive effects of railways have persisted over more than a century. Districts …