For the past century, dating to the final decades of colonial rule, Indian politics and public discourse have been dominated by leftists quick to demonize wealth. Since the demise of the Swatantra Party in 1974 no Indian party has espoused economic liberalism. The economic reforms of the 1990s ...
This paper revisits the relationship between capitalism and colonialism by examining the case of British India under East India Company rule (1757-1858). The MaSocial Science Electronic Publishing