Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri

Bio: Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: BENGAL & Intensive farming. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 5 publications receiving 52 citations.

Growth of Commercial Agriculture

Abstract: The growth of commercial agriculture made a deep impact on the peasant economy. The area of the impact, however, was small, since despite a large increase in the extent of cash crop cultivation in the period under review, it still formed a small part of the total cultivation. Even jute, the most extensively cultivated cash crop, did not occupy more than 10% of the total crop area of the districts in which it was grown, though in some particular districts the area was much larger. To analyse this impact we shall mainly concentrate

Growth of Commercial Agriculture in Bengal—1859-1885:

Abstract: analyse when we deal with individual crops, several developments in the second half of the 19th century stimulated India’s foreign and internal trade in general-trade largely consisting of raw mat erials and agricultural produce.1 The pace of industrial growth in some nations in the continent of Europe was far quicker in this period than. at any time before, resulting in the increased demand for raw materials. In the world economy itself, as Knowles2 has pointed out, new trends were visible about the year 1870. The ’period of world economy which means world production, world interdependence and world rivalry may be held to date from 1870, by which time railways and steamships were developed in England, France, Germany, and the U.S.A. to a point where their means of communication were revolutionised’. New developments tended to make quicker, easier and broader the commercial contacts of the industrial west with the sources of

Land Market in Eastern India, 1793-1940 Part I : The Movement of Land Prices

Abstract: The emergence of a market in land in eastern India during British rule as a result of distress sales of zamindari estates is by now a well-known story. But it has so far been studied mainly from the point of view of its immediate effects on the old landed community, and the main point of emphasis is the gradual extinction of a sizable section of this community. This paper is concerned with two other aspects of the land market which seem to have

Land Market in Eastern India, 1793-1940 Part II : The Changing Composition of the Landed Society:

Abstract: community, and its composition inevitably changed over the years. Recent researches, however, call for a revision of the popular notions about the change. According to the popular version, two broad developments occurred : first, the old aristocracy had everywhere been largely eliminated and, secondly, the persons who replaced them were mostly connected with the new trade and commerce, i.e. persons who made fortunes by participating in various ways in the new economy.

Rural Credit Relations in Bengal, 1859–1885:

Abstract: Unlike the report of the Deccan Riots Commission (1878) or Darling’s The Punjob Peasant in Prosperity and Debt, for Bengal we have no contemporary study of the origin of rural indebtedness. The explanations offered by contemporaries were of a general nature, not necessarily applicable to any particular situation. They assurned that the origin was not recent.’ We also assume that this is a valid assumption, and so we concentrate more on the circumstances

The Cambridge Economic History of India

Abstract: List of maps List of tables Preface Part I. The Land and the People: 1. The mid-eighteenth-century background Tapan Raychaudhuri 2. Agrarian relations Eric Stokes, B. Chaudhuri, H. Fukazawa and Dharma Kumar 3. Regional economy (1757-1857) Tom G. Kessinger, S. Bhattacharya, V. D. Divekar and Dharma Kumar 4. National income A. Heston 5. Population (1757-1947) Leela Visaria and Pravin Visaria 6. The occupational structure J. Krishnamurty Part II. The Beginnings of the Modern Economy: 7. The growth of large-scale industry to 1947 Morris D. Morris 8. Irrigation and railways Elizabeth Whitcombe and John M. Hurd 9. Money and credit, 1858-1947 A. G. Chandavarkar 10. Foreign trade and balance of payments (1757-1947) K. N. Chaudhuri 11. Price movements and fluctuations in economic activity (1860-1947) Michelle McAlpin 12. The fiscal system Dharma Kumar Part III. Post-Independence Developments: 13. The Indian economy since independence (1947-70) A. Vaidyanathan 14. The Pakistan economy since independence (1947-70) Swadesh R. Bose Glossary Bibliography Index.

The Growth of Large-Scale Industry to 1947

Abstract: Industrial development in India has been part of the very broad movement which had its origins in Western Europe. This chapter describes the growth of India's modern industries, the forms within which they developed and the character of the labour force that emerged. During the first half of the nineteenth century the industrialization process was taking deep hold in Britain and in other parts of the North Atlantic region but in India the new technology and novel processes had only a trifling impact. Most of what was introduced came as a product of official concern, civilian and military. The history of large-scale private factory enterprise between 1850 and the First World War is associated almost entirely with developments in three industries such as jute, cotton, and iron and steel industries. The development of the three industries reveals a great deal about the complexity of economic response on the sub-continent.

Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital: Rural Bengal since 1770

Abstract: This book is a critical work of synthesis and interpretation on one of the central themes in modern Indian history - agrarian change under British colonial rule. Sugata Bose analyses the relationships between demography, commercialization, class structure and peasant resistance unfolding over the long term between 1770 and more recent times. By integrating the histories of land and capital, he examines the relationship between capitalist 'development' of the wider economy under colonial rule and agrarian continuity and change. Drawing most of his empirical evidence from rural Bengal, the author makes comparisons with regional agrarian histories of other parts of South Asia. Thus, this study stands on its own in the field of modern Indian social and economic history in its chronological sweep and comparative context and makes the complex subject of India's peasantry accessible to students and the interested non-specialist.

Contracts, Hold-Up, and Exports: Textiles and Opium in Colonial India

Abstract: Trade and export, it is argued, spur economic growth. This paper studies the microeco- nomics of exporting. We build a heuristic model of transactions between exporters and producers and relate it to East India Company operations in colonial Bengal. Our model and the historical record stress two difficulties: the exporter and its agents might not uphold payment agreements, and producers might not honor sales contracts. The model shows when procurement succeeds or fails, highlighting the tension between these two hold-up problems. We analyze several cases including the East India Company's cotton textile venture, the famous Opium Monopoly, and present-day contract farming.