... pragmatic New System: a mercantile and utilitarian approach to Indian reform in Spanish colonies of the eighteenth century Josefina Cintrdn Tiryakian . . . the rudest nation . . . can be polished and the laziest people can be converted to work...

... of his many reform plans. This is somewhat puzzling insofar as it clashes with Keynes’s call for activist monetary policy. Indian Currency and Finance sheds light on the origins and arguments underlying this peculiar feature and is accordingly most significant in the development of Keynes’s work...

... that was born at the time poor? Third, has development economics more recently become more enriched? It will be suggested that greater appreciation of these Indian economic thinkers has implications for these questions. Correspondence may be addressed to Amitava Krishna Dutt, Department of Political Science...

... servant in the imperial administration, a writer, and an early nationalist fighting for Indian independence. Dutt encouraged traveling because, according to him, if Indians were to see and experience progress in Europe they could better understand modernity. Indian travel writing, unlike the European...

... and approaches to national accounting. Providing a close reading of Indian scholar K. T. Shah’s intervention in debates about how to measure the national economy of the 1920s, this article seeks to shed new light on innovative debates within Indian economics in this period. In so doing, it also seeks to draw...

... of an Economist. The Journal of Economic Perspectives . 1 . 1 (fall): 95 –111. Datta , Bhabatosh . 1978 . Indian Economic Thought: Twentieth Century Perspectives 1900–1950 . New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill. Desai , Padma , and Jagdish Bhagwati. 1975 . Socialism and Indian Economic Policy. World...

... of Government's Industrial and Commercial Enterprises . New Delhi, 1956 . Association of Indian Universities. Universities Handbook, India . New Delhi, 1975 . Bardhan , Pranab . “On Welfarism versus Radicalism in Planning”. Economic and Political Weekly 9 , no. 9 (2 March 1974...

.... Jackson, Robert. 1994 . Indian Population Decline: The Missions of Northwestern New Spain, 1687-1840 . Albuquerque: University of New Mexico. Kenneally, Finbar, ed. 1965 . Writings of Fermín Francisco de Lasuén . Washington, D.C.:American Academy of Franciscan History. Langholm, Odd. 1992...

... and intelligent administration of the teiritories under the jurisdiction of the East India Company was all the more important because of the entrenched stagnation of Indian society. Mill had emerged from a decade spent in preparing his massive MR. BARBERis Professor of Economics in Wesleyan...

..., the Philomathia Foundation, the British Academy, and the Isaac Newton Trust. References Ahuja Ravi . 2002 . “ State Formation and ‘Famine Policy’ in Early Colonial South India .” Indian Economic & Social History Review 39 , no. 4 : 351 – 80 . Shiksharthi Arthaganita . 1964...

... countries of the world, but particularly India. Owing to a sudden increase in the world production of silver, the price of silver began to fall everywhere, and the rate of exchange of the Indian rupee also dropped, as it was a silver monometallic c~rrency.~The falling exchange rate was also...

... tongues and in effect esch,wged knowledge of Greek soience, in which he was weU versed, for inforination on all Indian mattes.‘ The book that resulted is commonly referred to <as Alberuni’s Indin.2 In his preface to this book Alberuni declared: “I shl1 place before the reader...

... . India's Mississippi: The River Godaveri Navigation Scheme, 1853-1871. Journal of Indian History 43 : 699 -732. Harris, A. L. 1964 . John Stuart Mill: Servant of the East India Company. Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science 30.2 : 185 -202. Kinzer, B. L. 2001 . England's...

... (Locust Valley, N.Y ., 1959); Alfred Marshall, Principles of Eco- nomics (New York, 1948), pp. 64142; Walter C. Neale, “Reciprocity and Redistribu- tion in the Indian Village; Sequel to Some Notable Discussions,” in Karl Polanyi, ed., Trade and Market in the Early Empires (Glencoe, Ill., 1957...

... of Indian civilization his description is the following: Now sickening as it must be to human feeling to witness those myri- ads of industrious patriarchal and inoffensive social organizations dis- organized and dissolved into their units, thrown into a sea of woes, and their individual...

..., A. 1993 . A History of Indian Economic Thought . London: Routledge. Pope, G. U., W. H. Drew, John Lazarus, and F. W. Ellis,translators. 1958 . Thirukkural . Madras:The Saiva Siddhanta Works Publishing Society. Rangarajan, L. N., translator. 1987 . Kautilya: The Arthashastra . London:Penguin...

... of intellectuals who advocated Indian independence and nationalism, going against the ongoing British rule. According to Sen, original Indian heterodoxy focused on three main topics: home charges, tariffs and exchange rates, and the management of credit and external payments during the years of the Great...

..., 1932-51. In Money and Power: Essays in Honour of L. S. Pressnell , edited by P. L. Cottrell and D. E. Moggridge. London:Macmillan. ____. 1993 . British Monetary Policy:1945-51 . Oxford: Oxford University Press. Keynes, John Maynard. [1913] 1971a . Indian Currency and Finance .Vol. 1...

...Antoinette Baujard Antoinette.baujard@cnrs.fr Home in the World: A Memoir . By Amartya Sen . London : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books , 2021 . 480 pp. ₤25.00 . Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Amartya Kumar Sen (1933–) is an outstanding Indian...

... and actively supported by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. As one Sioux Indian wrote, “Indians have been cursed above all other peo- ple in history—Indians have anthropologists” (Huizer and Mannheim 1979, 254). Political independence of the colonies proved an unsettling experi- ence for anthropologists...