India, modernity and the "great divergence": Mysore and Gujarat (17th to 19th C.)
India, Modernity and the Great Divergence' is an original and pioneering book about India?s transition towards modernity and the rise of the West. The work examines global entanglements alongside the internal dynamics of 17th to 19th century Mysore and Gujarat in comparison to other regions of...
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| adam_text | India, Modernity and the
Great Divergence
Mysore and Gujarat (ijth to igth C )
By
Kaveh Yazdani
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68 ! ‘
BRILL
LEIDEN | BOSTON
Contents
Acknowledgements xm
Problem of Quotation and Transliteration xvi
List of Illustrations xvi i
List of Abbreviations xvi 11
Glossary xx
Maps xxvi
Introduction 1
o i) Preliminary Remarks 1
0 2) Purpose of Study 2
0 3) Unprinted Primary Sources 11
0 4) Orientalism 11
0 5) Eurocentrism 13
0 6) Methodology 14
0 7) Modes of Production 16
0 8) Modernity 22
0 9) ‘Simultaneity of the Non-Simultaneous’ 31
0 10) Modernity as a Historical Process and the Problem of
Periodization 32
o u) Prospect 61
1 The Transitional State of India’s History of Ideas, Science, Technology
and Culture in the 17th and 18th Centuries 66
1 1) Introduction 66
1 2) Critical Thinking and Indo-Persian Curiosity vis-ä-vis Europe 69
1 3) Late 18th Century Indo-Persian Preoccupation with the British
Political System 79
1 4) Technology 84
1 5) Documents and Manuscripts 98
1 6) Science and Learning 100
1 7) Printing 105
1 8) Art, Culture and the Emergence of a ‘Public Sphere’ 107
1 9) KingSerfoji 11 111
1 10) Conclusion 112
2 Mysore 115
2 1) Preliminary Remarks 115
2 2) Economy 116
X
CONTENTS
2 2 1) Introduction 116
2 2 2) Agriculture and Agrarian Social Relations 130
2 2 3) Living Conditions 165
2 2 4) Commerce and Mercantilism 170
2 2 5) Manufacture and Technology 184
2 2 6) Property Rights 212
2 3) Administration 220
2 3 1) Introduction 220
2 3 2) Tipu’s Administration 223
2 3 3) Revenues
2 3 4) Conclusion 229
2 4) Mobility, Transport and Infrastructure 230
2 4 1) Conclusion 236
2 5) Military Establishment 239
2 5 1) Introduction 239
2 5 2) Cavalry 244
2 5 3) Infantry and Artillery 247
2 5 4) Rocket Technology 251
2 5 5) Fortification 255
2 5 6) Marine 256
2 5 7) Conclusion 272
2 6) Education 279
2 6 1) Conclusion 285
2 7) Foreign Relations and Semi-Modernization 285
2 7 1) Introduction 285
2 7 2) Missions to France and the Ottoman Empire 289
2 7 3) Afghanistan, Persia and the Conspiracies of European
Powers 299
2 7 4) Conclusion 307
2 8) Political Structure - towards the Establishment of an
Islamic Theocracy 308
2 8 1) Conclusion 334
2 9) Resistance and the British Invasion 336
2 9 1) Conclusion 349
2 10) General Conclusion 350
3 Gujarat 361
3 1) Preliminary Remarks 361
3 2) Economy 363
3 2 1) Introduction 363
CONTENTS
XI
3 2 2) Agriculture 380
3 2 3) Food, Housing, Consumption and Natural Calamities 391
3 2 4) Powerful Merchants and Commerce during the rjth and
r8th Centuries 401
3 2 5) Manufacture and Technology 454
3 3) Mobility, Transport and Infrastructure 476
3 3 1) Conclusion 480
3 4) The State, Property Rights and Commercial Rules and
Regulations 481
3 4 1) Conclusion 492
3 5) Legal Practice - Civil and Criminal Penalties, Rules and
Regulations 493
3 5 1) Conclusion 501
3 6) The Status of Women 502
3 6 1) Conclusion 510
3 7) The Impact of Caste and Religion 510
3 7 1) Conclusion 515
3 8) Education 515
3 8 1) Conclusion 521
3 9) Political Structure 522
3 9 1) General Structures of Power 522
3 9 2) Decentralization and the Difficulties of the Company’s
Consolidation of Power 527
3 9 3) Independent Chieftains, Predation, Naval Warfare
and Piracy 530
3 10) Early Impact of British Rule 545
3 10 1) Conclusion 552
3 11) General Conclusion 553
4 Epilogue - Transition from Middle to Late Modernity 557
Appendix 577
Bibliography 579
Index of Persons 646
Index of Places 653
KAVEH YAZDANI.
INDIA, MODERNITY AND THE GREAT DIVERGENCE: MYSORE AND GUJARAT (17TH
TO 19TH C.).
LEIDEN: BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS, 2017. XXXII + 669 PP. $246.00
(CLOTH),
ISBN 978-90-04-33079-5.
REVIEWED BY
MONISH BORAH (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- IRVINE)
PUBLISHED ON
H-ASIA (JUNE, 2019)
COMMISSIONED BY
SUMIT GUHA (HE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN)
MODERNITY AS A HEURISTIC TO STUDY THE GREAT DIVERGENCE
KAVEH YAZDANI, IN
INDIA, MODERNITY AND THE GREAT
DIVERGENCE
, PROVIDES THE READERS WITH A CASE STUDY OF
MYSORE AND GUJARAT TO EXPLAIN WHY PRECOLONIAL INDIA
COULD NOT EXPERIENCE AN ECONOMIC TAKE-OF SIMILAR TO THE
ONE THAT HAPPENED IN WESTERN EUROPE. YAZDANI IS PRIMAR-
ILY CONCERNED WITH *THE GREAT DIVERGENCE* (P. 5) DEBATE,
BUT INSTEAD OF ASKING THE USUAL QUESTIONS LIKE *WHY DID
THE WEST INDUSTRIALIZE BEFORE THE REST* OR *WHY DID THE
REST LAG BEHIND THE WEST,* HE DECIDES TO FRAME THE CON-
CEPT OF MODERNITY AS A HEURISTIC CATEGORY AND USE IT IN
THREE WAYS.[1] FIRST, YAZDANI DIVIDES MODERNITY INTO THREE
PHASES: EARLY MODERNITY, WHICH LASTED FROM 1000 AD TO
1500 AD; MIDDLE MODERNITY, FROM 1500 AD TO 1800 AD;
AND LATE MODERNITY. YAZDANI IN
INDIA, MODERNITY AND THE
GREAT DIVERGENCE
IS PRIMARILY CONCERNED WITH THE TRAN-
SITION FROM MIDDLE MODERNITY TO LATE MODERNITY, WHICH
COINCIDES WITH INDIA TRANSITIONING BETWEEN THE MUGHAL
AND THE BRITISH EMPIRES. SECONDLY, BY USING MODERNITY
AS A HEURISTIC YAZDANI IS ABLE TO HAVE A LATERAL LOOK AT DI-
VERGENCE AND DECONSTRUCT IT INTO ITS CONSTITUENT ELEMENTS.
IN THE PROCESS OF THIS DECONSTRUCTION YAZDANI REALIZES THAT
SEVERAL CONCEPTS LIKE CAPITALISM, INDUSTRIAL CAPITAL, INDUS-
TRIALIZATION, COMMERCIALIZATION, AND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
MIGHT BE RELATED, BUT THEIR ROLE AND FOOTPRINT IN DIFERENT
SOCIETIES OVER TIME MAY VARY GREATLY. FOR EXAMPLE, HE
SHOWS HOW FREQUENTLY INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM AND INDUS-
TRIAL REVOLUTION ARE CONLATED BY HISTORIANS OF SOUTH ASIA
WITHOUT REALIZING THAT THE FORMER IS NOT NECESSARILY A PRE-
CONDITION FOR THE LATER. FINALLY, BY ADOPTING *MODERNITY*
AS A HEURISTIC CATEGORY YAZDANI MANAGED TO FREE HIMSELF
FROM BEING OBSESSED WITH PER CAPITA INCOME IN ANSWERING
CRUCIAL QUESTIONS LINKED WITH DIVERGENCE. YAZDANI HERE IS
INLUENCED BY THE WORKS OF PEER VRIES, WHO SHOWS THAT
DURING THE PERIOD UNDER CONSIDERATION IN THIS BOOK THE
WEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT GAP BETWEEN THE RICHEST AND THE
POOREST SOCIETIES IN THE WORLD WAS IN THE MAGNITUDE OF
IVE IS TO ONE, WHICH IS NOT VERY HIGH. SO, YAZDANI RESTRICTS
DISCUSSION OF WORKS THAT PRIMARILY FOCUS ON THE INCOME
LEVELS OF PEOPLE DURING THE SEVENTEENTH TO THE NINETEENTH
CENTURY TO PARTS OF THE BOOK THAT DEAL WITH LIVING STAN-
DARDS.
IN
INDIA, MODERNITY AND THE GREAT DIVERGENCE
, YAZDANI
IS GREATLY INLUENCED BY THE MARXIST SCHOOL OF THOUGHT, THE
FRENCH
ANNALES
SCHOOL, WORLD SYSTEMS THEORY, AND POST-
COLONIAL STUDIES. AS A RESULT OF SUCH INLUENCES, YAZDANI
TRIES TO DETERMINE INDIA*S MODES OF PRODUCTION AND SPREAD
OF LIBERAL IDEAS DURING THE PRECOLONIAL PERIOD WHILE AT THE
SAME TIME ADOPTING THE
LONGUE DUREE
NARRATIVE STYLE. BUT
YAZDANI ALSO REALIZES THE COMPLEXITY OF THE SUBJECT MAT-
TER HE IS DEALING WITH WHEN HIS RESEARCH REVEALS MULTIPLE
MODES OF PRODUCTION AND SEVERAL CORES AND PERIPHERIES
WITHIN INDIA FROM THE SEVENTEENTH TO THE NINETEENTH CEN-
TURY. SO HE CREATES A SYNTHESIS IN HIS NARRATIVE BY INTRO-
DUCING THE CONCEPT OF
GLEICHZEITIGKEIT DES UNGLEICHZEIT-
IGKEIT
(P. 31), OR THE SIMULTANEITY OF THE NONSIMULTANE-
OUS, WHICH CAN BE EXPLAINED AS FOLLOWS. YAZDANI*S TWO
CASE STUDIES OF MYSORE AND GUJARAT WERE AMONGST THE
1
H-NET REVIEWS
MOST ADVANCED REGIONS IN INDIA DURING THE PRECOLONIAL
PERIOD. HE ALSO RECOGNIZES THAT THE PERIOD FROM 1770 TO
1830 WAS A
SATELZEIT
(P. 35) OR SADDLE PERIOD THAT BROUGHT
THE ENTIRE WORLD AND MORE IMPORTANTLY THE CORE AREAS OF
AFRO-EURASIA TO *LATE MODERNITY.* BUT THE COMPLETE TRAN-
SITION OF THE WORLD TO LATE MODERNITY COULD ONLY BE COM-
PLETED ATER THE SECOND WORLD WAR. HEREFORE THE TRAN-
SITION FROM MIDDLE MODERNITY TO LATE MODERNITY WAS NEI-
THER UNIFORM NOR SMOOTH, AND SEVERAL SOCIETIES, LIKE THOSE
IN INDIA, CONTINUED TO DEAL WITH PROBLEMS INHERITED FROM
MIDDLE MODERNITY. IN OTHER WORDS, DIFERENT MIDDLE MOD-
ERN SOCIETIES WERE TRANSITIONING TO LATE MODERNITY WITH
VARYING ACCELERATION RATES.
ONE OF THE PRIMARY GOALS OF THE AUTHOR IN
INDIA,
MODERNITY AND THE GREAT DIVERGENCE
IS TO SHOW THE EN-
DOGENOUS STRENGTH AND POTENTIAL OF THE *REST* (P. 59) TO
MODERNIZE AND TO GROW, WHICH IS ALSO SUPPOSED TO IN-
VERSELY WORK AS AN ARGUMENT FOR THE INLUENCE OF THE
*REST* (P. 55) IN THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF THE WEST. YAZDANI
MENTIONS HOW ELEVENTH-CENTURY SONG CHINA WAS MORE
INDUSTRIALIZED AND CAPITALIZED THAN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY
ENGLAND. EVEN FROM THE SIXTEENTH TO THE EIGHTEENTH CEN-
TURY CORE REGIONS OF ASIA WERE MORE ADVANCED THAN EU-
ROPE IN FOUR KEY AREAS. FIRST, CHINA HAD THE MOST AD-
VANCED CAREER PROGRESSION SYSTEM IN THE WORLD, WHICH
WAS ORGANIZED AROUND A BATERY OF EXAMINATIONS. SECOND,
THE COSMOPOLITAN NATURE OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE, BASED ON
TOLERANCE OF DIVERSITY IN RELIGION AND CULTURE, ALSO HAD NO
PARALLEL IN THE WORLD. HIRD, THE CITY-DWELLERS OF NORTH-
EAST, WEST, AND SOUTH ASIA HAD HIGHER SENSE AND CON-
CERN ABOUT HYGIENE THAN THE URBAN INHABITANTS OF EU-
ROPE. LAST, CHINA AND INDIA WERE MASS-PRODUCING ITEMS
LIKE PORCELAIN AND TEXTILES EVEN BEFORE THE INDUSTRIAL REV-
OLUTION. NOW, YAZDANI CHARACTERIZES MIDDLE MODERNITY,
WHICH STARTED IN THE EARLY SIXTEENTH CENTURY, AS A PERIOD
WHEN HISTORY TRULY STARTED BECOMING GLOBAL DUE TO IN-
CREASED INTERACTIONS FUELED BY BETER TRANSPORTATION AND
COMMUNICATION NETWORKS. SO HE CONCLUDES THAT SEVERAL
KEY ADVANCEMENTS MADE BY EUROPE DURING THIS PERIOD
LIKE THE RENAISSANCE, THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA, PRINTING,
THE SCIENTIIC REVOLUTION, ENLIGHTENMENT, INDUSTRIAL REV-
OLUTION, INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM, AND THE FORMATION OF THE
NATION-STATE AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES WERE DIRECT RESULTS OF
THE EUROPEAN EXPLOITATION OF THE *OTHER* (P. 55).
ANOTHER UNIQUE CONTRIBUTION BY YAZDANI TO THE DIVER-
GENCE DEBATE IS HIS FORMULATION OF THE INDIAN CATCH-UP
STORY. YAZDANI CONSIDERS MIDDLE MODERNITY TO BE CHAR-
ACTERIZED BY EUROPEAN DYNAMISM, SOMETHING THAT WAS
MISSING DURING EARLY MODERNITY. YAZDANI ALSO RECOG-
NIZES THAT DURING MIDDLE MODERNITY WESTERN EUROPE WAS
CLOSER TO ENTERING LATE MODERNITY THAN ANY PART OF ASIA.
FOR YAZDANI, EUROPE*S LEADING ROLE IN DRIVING MODERNITY
AHEAD ALSO MEANT THE CREATION OF A DECREASINGLY POLY-
CENTRIC WORLD. BUT YAZDANI ALSO CAUTIONS US THAT THE DE-
CLINE OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE SHOULD NOT BE EQUATED WITH
A DECLINE OF SOUTH ASIA. YAZDANI*S RESEARCH PROVIDES THE
READERS WITH SEVERAL PIECES OF EVIDENCE THAT SHOW THAT AL-
THOUGH SOME INITIAL ADVANCEMENTS WERE MADE BY THE EU-
ROPEANS DURING MIDDLE MODERNITY, INDIANS SOON MANAGED
TO CATCH UP TO THEM. FOR EXAMPLE, INDIAN MILITARIES WERE
CLEARLY INFERIOR TO THE EUROPEAN ONES IN THE BEGINNING
OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, BUT BY THE SECOND HALF OF THE
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY INDIAN MILITARY FORCES LIKE THOSE OF
MYSORE WERE JUST AS GOOD AS ANY EUROPEAN IGHTING FORCE.
ALSO, MYSORE BECAME A STABLE AND CENTRALIZED MILITARY-
ISCAL STATE LIKE SEVERAL EUROPEAN NATION-STATES, AND THE
PEASANTS OF MYSORE ALSO ENJOYED STABLE PROPERTY RIGHTS.
GUJARAT ALSO ENGAGED IN RAPID CATCH-UP WITH EUROPE. GU-
JARATI SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY BECAME AS ADVANCED AS EURO-
PEAN SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES SOON ATER THE INITIAL CONTACT
WITH THE EUROPEANS. GUJARAT SAW VERY RAPID URBANIZA-
TION, WHICH WAS SUPPORTED BY AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY
THAT WAS AT LEAST AS HIGH AS EUROPE*S. GUJARAT*S TEXTILE
INDUSTRY ENGAGED IN MANUFACTURING ON A MASS SCALE NOT
ONLY FOR THE SAKE OF DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION BUT ALSO FOR
EXPORTS. MOREOVER, THE GUJARATI COMMERCIAL CLASS, CON-
SISTING OF MERCHANTS, TRADERS, AND BANKERS, HAD SUICIENT
OPPORTUNITIES FOR SOCIAL MOBILITY AND ENJOYED SIGNIICANT
POLITICAL POWERS. BUT THEN WHY COULD INDIA NOT INDUSTRIAL-
IZE AND DIVERGE BEFORE THE WEST? KAVEH YAZDANI PROVIDES
TWO ANSWERS TO THIS QUESTION. ONE IS AIMED AT THE CORE RE-
GIONS OF SOUTH ASIA LIKE GUJARAT AND THE OTHER ADDRESSES
THE DEICIENCIES OF INDIA IN GENERAL.
YAZDANI INDICATES QUITE STRONGLY THAT ADVANCED AREAS
OF INDIA LIKE GUJARAT DID NOT INDUSTRIALIZE BEFORE WESTERN
EUROPE BECAUSE THEY FELL INTO THE HIGH-LEVEL EQUILIBRIUM
TRAP. GUJARAT HAD SUICIENT ACCESS TO FUEL IN THE FORM OF
WOOD, GEOCLIMATIC SITUATIONS WERE FAVORABLE, IT ENJOYED
GLOBAL LEADERSHIP IN MANUFACTURING GOODS LIKE TEXTILES,
AND ITS PREMODERN INSTITUTIONS WERE SPURRING CONTINUOUS
GROWTH. AS A RESULT, THERE WAS NO GREAT INCENTIVE TO PAY
THE OPPORTUNITY COST TO INDUSTRIALIZE. ON THE OTHER HAND,
HIGH LABOR AND PRODUCTION COSTS, LACK OF SUICIENT FUEL IN
THE FORM OF WOOD, AND INABILITY TO COMPETE WITH INDIA
IN MANUFACTURING LED EUROPE TO THE PATH OF MECHANIZA-
TION AND INDUSTRIALIZATION. WITH REGARD TO INDIA IN GEN-
ERAL, YAZDANI POINTS OUT SEVERAL ENDOGENOUS OBSTACLES TO
DIVERGENCE, SUCH AS BAD INSTITUTIONS, LACK OF LIBERALISM,
AND GEOGRAPHICAL CONSTRAINTS, BUT NONE OF THESE BARRIERS
WERE INSURMOUNTABLE. ACCORDING TO YAZDANI, INDIA*S LACK
2
H-NET REVIEWS
OF DIVERGENCE IS A RESULT OF A COMBINATION OF BOTH ENDOGE-
NOUS AND EXOGENOUS FACTORS. BY BRINGING THE NINETEENTH
CENTURY ALSO UNDER THE AMBIT OF
INDIA, MODERNITY AND THE
GREAT DIVERGENCE
YAZDANI IS ABLE TO ASK WHY INDIA COULD
NOT DIVERGE EVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, WHEN MECH-
ANIZATION OF PRODUCTION WAS INTRODUCED AS EARLY AS THE
1820S. SO, HOW DID INDIA*S DIVERGENCE, WHICH SHOULD HAVE
BEEN DELAYED BY JUST A FEW DECADES, GET DELAYED BY OVER
A CENTURY?
YAZDANI ACCEPTS TIRTHANKAR ROY*S ARGUMENT THAT AL-
THOUGH BRITISH COLONIZATION WAS CHARACTERIZED BY A LACK
OF POLITICAL FREEDOM, THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT THERE WAS
AN ABSENCE OF ECONOMIC FREEDOM AS WELL. BUT UNLIKE ROY,
YAZDANI IS NOT READY TO CHARACTERIZE THE DRAIN OF WEALTH
FROM INDIA TO ENGLAND AS PAYMENT FOR THE SERVICES REN-
DERED BY THE BRITISH TO INDIA FOR TWO REASONS. FIRST, THERE
WAS A SUICIENT NUMBER OF SKILLED INDIANS TO PROVIDE THE
SAME *SERVICES* (P. 573), BUT THEY WERE SYSTEMATICALLY
MADE NONCOMPETITIVE BY COLONIAL POLICYMAKERS THROUGH
UNFAIR TARIFS AND CUSTOM DUTIES. SECOND, MAJOR EURO-
PEAN COUNTRIES LIKE FRANCE AND GERMANY COULD INDUSTRI-
ALIZE ONLY BY DEVELOPING THE SKILLS OF THEIR COUNTRYMEN
THROUGH STATE-LED EDUCATION PROGRAMS, BUT INDIA*S LITER-
ACY RATE SHOWED REAL IMPROVEMENT ONLY ATER THE END
OF BRITISH COLONIAL RULE. YAZDANI ALSO HEAVILY CRITICIZES
BRITISH RULE FOR PERVERTING INDIA*S ECONOMIC GROWTH AND
FOR OBSTRUCTING INDIA*S MARCH TOWARD LATE MODERNITY. AC-
CORDING TO YAZDANI, THE JUDICIAL AND THE LEGISLATIVE SYS-
TEMS THAT WERE SET UP DURING COLONIAL RULE WERE DISCRIMI-
NATORY. AS A RESULT, PEOPLE BELONGING TO LOWER CASTES AND
WOMEN WERE SYSTEMATICALLY DISCRIMINATED AGAINST, WHICH
LED TO A REVERSAL OF MODERNITY AND TO THE *TRADITIONALIZA-
TION* (P. 574) OF SOME PARTS OF INDIA. YAZDANI ALSO SHOWS
THAT NOT ONLY WERE PROPERTY RIGHTS REGARDING LAND NOT
PROTECTED AGAINST PREDATORY BEHAVIOR, BUT INCOME FROM
AGRICULTURE WAS NO LONGER RELIABLE SINCE AROUND THIRTY
MILLION PEOPLE DIED FROM FAMINES IN INDIA BETWEEN 1876
AND 1902. SO, EXOGENOUS FACTORS LIKE BRITISH COLONIZATION
HAD A MAJOR NEGATIVE IMPACT ON INDIA*S POTENTIAL FOR ECO-
NOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND HER MARCH TOWARD LATE MODER-
NITY.
KAVEH YAZDANI*S
INDIA, MODERNITY AND THE GREAT DI-
VERGENCE
IS WELL WRITEN, IMPECCABLY RESEARCHED, WELL AR-
GUED, AND STRUCTURED TO ALMOST GEOMETRICAL PERFECTION.
HIS BOOK IS RECOMMENDED FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN THE
DIVERGENCE DEBATE OR IN EARLY MODERN INDIA. MY ONLY
CRITICISM OF THIS BOOK IRONICALLY EMERGES FROM ONE OF ITS
STRONG POINTS. WHEN BARRY EICHENGREEN REVIEWED RO-
MAN STUDER*S BOOK
HE GREAT DIVERGENCE RECONSIDERED
,
HE REMARKED THAT STATISTICAL WORKS CAN ONLY HINT AT THE
ANSWERS TO A LARGER QUESTION AND SO WE ARE CURRENTLY
IN NEED OF RESEARCH THAT CAN MAKE HISTORICAL SENSE OF
THE ECONOMIC DATA OUT THERE.[2] YAZDANI SETS OUT TO DO
EXACTLY THAT, BUT SINCE HE HAS TO RELY ON THE DATA SETS
CREATED BY PEOPLE LIKE STEPHEN BROADBERRY, BISHNUPRIYA
GUPTA, AND ROMAN STUDER, HE IS ALSO FORCED TO CHARACTER-
IZE WORKS OF PEOPLE LIKE KENNETH POMERANZ AND PRASAN-
NAN PARTHASARATHI AS REVISIONIST. HIS DOES NOT SEEM CON-
SISTENT WITH THE CONCLUSIONS THAT YAZDANI HIMSELF ARRIVED
AT.
NOTES
[1]. FOR EXAMPLE, ERIC LIONEL JONES,
GROWTH RECURRING:
ECONOMIC CHANGE IN WORLD HISTORY
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[2]. BARRY EICHENGREEN, REVIEW OF
HE GREAT DIVER-
GENCE RECONSIDERED: EUROPE, INDIA AND THE RISE TO GLOBAL
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BY ROMAN STUDER,
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48, NO. 4 (2018): 554-56.
IF THERE IS ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION OF THIS REVIEW, YOU MAY ACCESS IT
THROUGH THE NETWORK, AT:
HTPS://NETWORKS.H-NET.ORG/H-ASIA
CITATION:
MONISH BORAH. REVIEW OF YAZDANI, KAVEH,
INDIA, MODERNITY AND THE GREAT DIVERGENCE: MYSORE AND GUJARAT
(17TH TO 19TH C.)
. H-ASIA, H-NET REVIEWS. JUNE, 2019.
URL:
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