...Maria Bach Abstract The history of economics literature has few studies on how traveling impacts economists and their ideas. Much fewer still exist on the travels of lesser-known economists such as Romesh Chunder Dutt. Dutt (1848–1909) was the founder of agricultural economics in India, a civil...

... . Dutt Romesh Chunder . 1902 . The Economic History of India under Early British Rule . Vol. 1 . London : Routledge and Kegan Paul . Dutt Romesh Chunder . 1904 . The Economic History of India in the Victorian Age . Vol. 2 . London : Routledge and Kegan Paul . Ferguson Niall...

... and by Mauro Boianovsky and Gerardo Serra deal with the expectations of the Indian political economist Romesh Chunder Dutt and the well-known British economist Joan Robinson that were challenged on their respective travels westward and eastward. Dutt traveled to the center of the British Empire to sit...

..., how, if at all, did their traveling observations “broaden the economic mind” for either Say or for Robinson? Romesh Chunder Dutt's travels, as Maria Bach's article shows, are a kind of proof of this point, and take us back again to the value of reciprocal comparison. Dutt came to England...