Subject(s): South Asia 1857-1947: colonialism and globalization, globalisation, Economic growth and history, Growth and stagnation -- Transition to colonialism: Economic condition in 17th and 18th centuries, Transition to colonialism -- Growth and structural change: Globalization and patterns of trade, Saving and investment, Private investment, Public finance,Capacity to invest, balance of payment, Capacity revisited -- Agriculture: Trending in production and income, Resource and techniques, markets, Land labour and credit markets, -- Common: Common land, Forest, Tribal milieu, Forest dependent people, Village commons and pastures, land use patterns -- Small scale industry :Industry defines, Long-term pattern of industrialization, Interpretations of industrialization Hand loom waving,Capital and Labour in traditional small scale industries , Modern small scale industry, large scale industry : statistical outline, industrialization, Finance for industry, Entrepreneurship, Management, Large scale industry in the states -- Plantations mines banking , Insurance, Infrastructure, Impetus, irrigation, railways, roads and inland waterways, ports, posts and telegraph, power , legal system, education and health care, Fiscal and monetary systems: economic policies and policy making, Trade policy, Fiscal system, monetary system, prices -- Population and labour : famines, labour force