Law And The Economy In Colonial India
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Law And The Economy In Colonial India
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Author : Tirthankar Roy
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2016-09-20
Law And The Economy In Colonial India written by Tirthankar Roy and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-20 with Business & Economics categories.
Since the economic reforms of the 1990s, India’s economy has grown rapidly. To sustain growth and foreign investment over the long run requires a well-developed legal infrastructure for conducting business, including cheap and reliable contract enforcement and secure property rights. But it’s widely acknowledged that India’s legal infrastructure is in urgent need of reform, plagued by problems, including slow enforcement of contracts and land laws that differ from state to state. How has this situation arisen, and what can boost business confidence and encourage long-run economic growth? Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy trace the beginnings of the current Indian legal system to the years of British colonial rule. They show how India inherited an elaborate legal system from the British colonial administration, which incorporated elements from both British Common Law and indigenous institutions. In the case of property law, especially as it applied to agricultural land, indigenous laws and local political expediency were more influential in law-making than concepts borrowed from European legal theory. Conversely, with commercial law, there was considerable borrowing from Europe. In all cases, the British struggled with limited capacity to enforce their laws and an insufficient knowledge of the enormous diversity and differentiation within Indian society. A disorderly body of laws, not conducive to production and trade, evolved over time. Roy and Swamy’s careful analysis not only sheds new light on the development of legal institutions in India, but also offers insights for India and other emerging countries through a look at what fosters the types of institutions that are key to economic growth.
Law And The Economy In A Young Democracy
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Author : Tirthankar Roy
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2022-02-08
Law And The Economy In A Young Democracy written by Tirthankar Roy and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-08 with Business & Economics categories.
An essential history of India's economic growth since 1947, including the legal reforms that have shaped the country in the shadow of colonial rule. Economists have long lamented how the inefficiency of India's legal system undermines the country’s economic capacity. How has this come to be? The prevailing explanation is that the postcolonial legal system is understaffed and under-resourced, making adjudication and contract enforcement slow and costly. Taking this as given, Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy examines the contents and historical antecedents of these laws, including how they have stifled economic development. Economists Roy and Swamy argue that legal evolution in independent India has been shaped by three factors: the desire to reduce inequality and poverty; the suspicion that market activity, both domestic and international, can be detrimental to these goals; and the strengthening of Indian democracy over time, giving voice to a growing fraction of society, including the poor. Weaving the story of India's heralded economic transformation with its social and political history, Roy and Swamy show how inadequate legal infrastructure has been a key impediment to the country's economic growth during the last century. A stirring and authoritative history of a nation rife with contradictions, Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand India's current crossroads—and the factors that may keep its dreams unrealized.
Stages Of Capital
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Author : Ritu Birla
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2009-01-14
Stages Of Capital written by Ritu Birla and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-14 with History categories.
In Stages of Capital, Ritu Birla brings research on nonwestern capitalisms into conversation with postcolonial studies to illuminate the historical roots of India’s market society. Between 1870 and 1930, the British regime in India implemented a barrage of commercial and contract laws directed at the “free” circulation of capital, including measures regulating companies, income tax, charitable gifting, and pension funds, and procedures distinguishing gambling from speculation and futures trading. Birla argues that this understudied legal infrastructure institutionalized a new object of sovereign management, the market, and along with it, a colonial concept of the public. In jurisprudence, case law, and statutes, colonial market governance enforced an abstract vision of modern society as a public of exchanging, contracting actors free from the anachronistic constraints of indigenous culture. Birla reveals how the categories of public and private infiltrated colonial commercial law, establishing distinct worlds for economic and cultural practice. This bifurcation was especially apparent in legal dilemmas concerning indigenous or “vernacular” capitalists, crucial engines of credit and production that operated through networks of extended kinship. Focusing on the story of the Marwaris, a powerful business group renowned as a key sector of India’s capitalist class, Birla demonstrates how colonial law governed vernacular capitalists as rarefied cultural actors, so rendering them illegitimate as economic agents. Birla’s innovative attention to the negotiations between vernacular and colonial systems of valuation illustrates how kinship-based commercial groups asserted their legitimacy by challenging and inhabiting the public/private mapping. Highlighting the cultural politics of market governance, Stages of Capital is an unprecedented history of colonial commercial law, its legal fictions, and the formation of the modern economic subject in India.
The Government Of Social Life In Colonial India
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Author : Rachel Sturman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-06-29
The Government Of Social Life In Colonial India written by Rachel Sturman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-29 with History categories.
This book analyses religious law in colonial India, exploring how it encouraged gender equality and a rethinking of the relationship between state and society.
Peasants Political Economy And Law
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Author : Peter G. Robb
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2007
Peasants Political Economy And Law written by Peter G. Robb and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
In this collection written over a period of almost two decades, Peter Robb, an important historian of the Empire, explores the connections between agrarian policy, revenue, property law, and commercial production; and the emergence of political identities. He investigates issues like economic development, tenancy acts, peasant stratification, "capitalist" agriculture, and definitions of labor in relation to the British Empire.
Law And Long Term Economic Change
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Author : Debin Ma
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2011-06-06
Law And Long Term Economic Change written by Debin Ma and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-06 with Business & Economics categories.
Recently, a growing body of work on "law and finance" and "legal origins" has highlighted the role of formal legal institutions in shaping financial institutions. However, these writings have focused largely on Europe, neglecting important non-Western traditions that prevail in a large part of the world. Law and Long-Term Economic Change brings together a group of leading scholars from economics, economic history, law, and area studies to develop a unique, global and, long-term perspective on the linkage between law and economic change. Covering the regions of Western Europe, East and South Asia, and the Middle East, the chapters explore major themes regarding the nature and evolution of different legal regimes; their relationship with the state or organized religion; the definition and interpretation of ownership and property rights; the functioning of courts, and other mechanisms for dispute resolution and contract enforcement; and the complex dynamics of legal transplantations through processes such as colonization. The text makes clear that the development of legal traditions and institutions—as embodiments of cultural values and norms—exerts a strong effect on long-term economic change. And it demonstrates that a good understanding of legal origins around the world enriches any debate about Great Divergence in the early modern era, as well as development and underdevelopment in 19th-20th century Eurasia.
Indigenous And Colonial Origins Of Comparative Economic Development The Case Of Colonial India And Africa
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Author : Christopher Alan Bayly
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2012
Indigenous And Colonial Origins Of Comparative Economic Development The Case Of Colonial India And Africa written by Christopher Alan Bayly and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
Abstract: This paper concerns the institutional origins of economic development, emphasizing the cases of nineteenth-century India and Africa. Colonial institutions-the law, western style property rights, newspapers and statistical analysis-played an important part in the emergence of Indian public and commercial life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These institutions existed in the context of a state that was extractive and yet dependent on indigenous cooperation in many areas, especially in the case of the business class. In such conditions, Indian elites were critical in creating informal systems of peer-group education, enhancing aspiration through the use of historicist and religious themes and in creating a "benign sociology" of India as a prelude to development. Indigenous ideologies and practices were as significant in this slow enhancement of Indian capabilities as transplanted colonial ones. Contemporary development specialists would do well to consider the merits of indigenous forms of association and public debate, religious movements and entrepreneurial classes. Over much of Asia and Africa, the most successful enhancement of people's capabilities has come through the action of hybrid institutions of this type.
Race Religion And Law In Colonial India
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Author : Chandra Mallampalli
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Race Religion And Law In Colonial India written by Chandra Mallampalli and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Inheritance and succession categories.
Through a landmark court case in mid-nineteenth century colonial India, this book investigates hierarchy and racial difference.
Executive Legislation In Colonial India 1939 1947
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Author : Hans Raj
language : en
Publisher: Anamika Pub & Distributors
Release Date : 1989
Executive Legislation In Colonial India 1939 1947 written by Hans Raj and has been published by Anamika Pub & Distributors this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Executive orders categories.
A Study Of Central Executive Legislation During 1939-47 About The Focus And Nature Of Ordinances Issued. Also Gives A Background Of Ordinance Making Power Of Governor General And The Legacy Which Independent India Got From The Past. Has 11 Chapters And One Annexure. Contents Covers- 1. Background, 2. Out-Break Of War Year Ordinances 1939, 3. War Progressing Year Ordinances 1940, 4. War Progressing Year Ordinances 1941, 5. Peak War And Quit India Movement Year Ordinmances 1942, 7. Declining War Year Ordinances 1944, 8. Closing War Year Ordinances 1945, 9. Post War Year Ordinances 1946, 10. Towards Freedom Year Ordinances 1947, 11. Legacy Of Ordinances. Without Dust Jacket.
Subjects Citizens And Law
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Author : Gunnel Cederlöf
language : en
Publisher: Routledge India
Release Date : 2017
Subjects Citizens And Law written by Gunnel Cederlöf and has been published by Routledge India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Citizenship categories.
5 A homeland for 'tribal' subjects: revisiting British colonial experimentations in the Kolhan Government Estate -- 6 Conflict and governance: participation and strategic veto in Bihar and Jharkhand, India -- 7 Refugees in India: a study of (un)equal status, treatment and prospects -- 8 Law, agro-ecology and colonialism in mid-Gangetic India, 1770s-1910s -- Subjects, citizens and law: a postscript -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index