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Landed property and credit in colonial India

Publication 6 Jun 2016 Cities

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Anand Swamy

Professor of Economics, Williams College

Tirthankar Roy

Professor of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
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"We cannot draw an indictment against half the people of India; and we may be quite sure whether we can see it or not, that we and our institutions are in the wrong, and not they." Denzil Ibbetson

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