Economic History and Modern India: Redefining the Link
认为，要恢复经济史与现代印度的联系，需要重新审视印度经济史叙事，指出仅关注殖民主义会忽略经济结构和地方条件的连续性，并分析了市场导向的殖民政策如何启动增长，但受限于投资不足、低教育率、社会不平等和人口负担。
This paper argues that to restore the link between economic history and modern India, a different narrative of Indian economic history is needed. An exclusive focus on colonialism as the driver of India's economic history misses those continuities that arise from economic structure or local conditions. In fact, market-oriented British imperial policies did initiate a process of economic growth based on the production of goods intensive in labor and natural resources. However, productive capacity per worker was constrained by low rates of private and public investment in infrastructure, excessively low rates of schooling, social inequalities based on caste and gender and a delayed demographic transition to lower birthrates and the resultant heavy demographic burden placed on physical capital and natural resources.