Indigenous and Colonial Origins of Comparative Economic Development : The Case of Colonial India and Africa
This paper concerns the institutional origins of economic development, emphasizing the cases of nineteenth-century India and Africa. Colonial institutions-the law, western style property rights, newspapers and statistical analysis-played an importa...
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okr-10986-64502021-04-23T14:02:30Z Indigenous and Colonial Origins of Comparative Economic Development : The Case of Colonial India and Africa Bayly, C. A. ACCESS TO INFORMATION AGRARIAN SOCIETY AGRICULTURE ANCIENT SYSTEM ANTHROPOLOGISTS ANTHROPOLOGY BASIC BENCHMARK BEST PRACTICE BOND BONDS BUSINESS COMMUNITIES CALCULATION CAPACITY BUILDING CAPITAL MARKETS CAPITALISM CENTRALIZATION CHECKS CITIES COLLECTIVE COLLECTIVE ACTION COLONIAL PERIOD COLONIALISM COMMODITY COMPANY COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES COMPARATIVE HISTORY CONSOLIDATION CONTRIBUTION CORPORATE BODIES CORPORATE ENTERPRISE CULTURAL PERFORMANCES CULTURES DECENTRALIZATION DELTA DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS DEPENDENCE DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES DISTRICTS DROUGHT ECOLOGY ECONOMETRIC MODELS ECONOMIC DEPENDENCY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC EXPANSION ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC HISTORIANS ECONOMIC HISTORY ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE EQUALITY ESSAYS ESTATES FAMILIES FAMILY FIRM FAMILY STRUCTURES FINANCIAL SUPPORT FIRST GENERATION FRANCHISE FREE TRADE GDP GEOGRAPHY GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS GROWTH RATE HISTORIANS HISTORICAL ANALYSIS HISTORICAL DATA HISTORICAL EVIDENCE HISTORIOGRAPHY HORN OF AFRICA IDENTITY INCOME INCOME LEVELS INCOMES INCORPORATED INDIGENOUS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INDIGENOUS PEOPLE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT INDUSTRIALIZATION INFERENCE INHERITANCE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY INVESTIGATION KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY LABOR FORCE LACK OF EXPERIENCE LIMITED LITERACY LITERATURE LIVING STANDARDS MARKETING MIDDLE AGES MIDDLE EAST MISSIONARIES MONOPOLISTS MONOPOLY MUNICIPALITIES MYTH NATIONALISM NORTH AFRICA PERCEPTION PHILOSOPHY POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL PARTIES POWER PRE-COLONIAL PERIOD PRESERVATION PRIMARY EDUCATION PRODUCTIVITY PROPERTY RIGHTS PROPRIETARY PROPRIETORSHIP PROSPERITY PUBLIC GOODS RAPID DEVELOPMENT RATE OF GROWTH READING RELIGION RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY SAHARA SALARIES SCHOLARSHIP SCHOOLS SLAVERY SOCIAL GROUPS SOCIAL HISTORY SOCIAL MOVEMENTS SOCIAL ORGANIZATION SOCIAL PROCESSES SOCIETIES SOCIETY SOCIOLOGY SOURCES OF INCOME STATE ACTION STATISTICAL ANALYSIS SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA TAXATION TEMPLE TOWNS TRADITION TRADITIONS TRAVELS UNION VALUABLE VILLAGES WEALTH WEALTH CREATION WESTERN EUROPE WORLD HISTORY WRITERS This paper concerns the institutional origins of economic development, emphasizing the cases of nineteenth-century India and Africa. Colonial institutions-the law, western style property rights, newspapers and statistical analysis-played an important part in the emergence of Indian public and commercial life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These institutions existed in the context of a state that was extractive and yet dependent on indigenous cooperation in many areas, especially in the case of the business class. In such conditions, Indian elites were critical in creating informal systems of peer-group education, enhancing aspiration through the use of historicist and religious themes and in creating a "benign sociology" of India as a prelude to development. Indigenous ideologies and practices were as significant in this slow enhancement of Indian capabilities as transplanted colonial ones. Contemporary development specialists would do well to consider the merits of indigenous forms of association and public debate, religious movements and entrepreneurial classes. Over much of Asia and Africa, the most successful enhancement of people's capabilities has come through the action of hybrid institutions of this type. 2012-05-25T18:49:25Z 2012-05-25T18:49:25Z 2008-01 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/01/8941952/indigenous-colonial-origins-comparative-economic-development-case-colonial-india-africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6450 English Policy Research Working Paper; No. 4474 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Africa South Asia Africa India |
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ACCESS TO INFORMATION AGRARIAN SOCIETY AGRICULTURE ANCIENT SYSTEM ANTHROPOLOGISTS ANTHROPOLOGY BASIC BENCHMARK BEST PRACTICE BOND BONDS BUSINESS COMMUNITIES CALCULATION CAPACITY BUILDING CAPITAL MARKETS CAPITALISM CENTRALIZATION CHECKS CITIES COLLECTIVE COLLECTIVE ACTION COLONIAL PERIOD COLONIALISM COMMODITY COMPANY COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES COMPARATIVE HISTORY CONSOLIDATION CONTRIBUTION CORPORATE BODIES CORPORATE ENTERPRISE CULTURAL PERFORMANCES CULTURES DECENTRALIZATION DELTA DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS DEPENDENCE DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES DISTRICTS DROUGHT ECOLOGY ECONOMETRIC MODELS ECONOMIC DEPENDENCY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC EXPANSION ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC HISTORIANS ECONOMIC HISTORY ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE EQUALITY ESSAYS ESTATES FAMILIES FAMILY FIRM FAMILY STRUCTURES FINANCIAL SUPPORT FIRST GENERATION FRANCHISE FREE TRADE GDP GEOGRAPHY GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS GROWTH RATE HISTORIANS HISTORICAL ANALYSIS HISTORICAL DATA HISTORICAL EVIDENCE HISTORIOGRAPHY HORN OF AFRICA IDENTITY INCOME INCOME LEVELS INCOMES INCORPORATED INDIGENOUS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INDIGENOUS PEOPLE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT INDUSTRIALIZATION INFERENCE INHERITANCE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY INVESTIGATION KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY LABOR FORCE LACK OF EXPERIENCE LIMITED LITERACY LITERATURE LIVING STANDARDS MARKETING MIDDLE AGES MIDDLE EAST MISSIONARIES MONOPOLISTS MONOPOLY MUNICIPALITIES MYTH NATIONALISM NORTH AFRICA PERCEPTION PHILOSOPHY POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL PARTIES POWER PRE-COLONIAL PERIOD PRESERVATION PRIMARY EDUCATION PRODUCTIVITY PROPERTY RIGHTS PROPRIETARY PROPRIETORSHIP PROSPERITY PUBLIC GOODS RAPID DEVELOPMENT RATE OF GROWTH READING RELIGION RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY SAHARA SALARIES SCHOLARSHIP SCHOOLS SLAVERY SOCIAL GROUPS SOCIAL HISTORY SOCIAL MOVEMENTS SOCIAL ORGANIZATION SOCIAL PROCESSES SOCIETIES SOCIETY SOCIOLOGY SOURCES OF INCOME STATE ACTION STATISTICAL ANALYSIS SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA TAXATION TEMPLE TOWNS TRADITION TRADITIONS TRAVELS UNION VALUABLE VILLAGES WEALTH WEALTH CREATION WESTERN EUROPE WORLD HISTORY WRITERS |
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ACCESS TO INFORMATION AGRARIAN SOCIETY AGRICULTURE ANCIENT SYSTEM ANTHROPOLOGISTS ANTHROPOLOGY BASIC BENCHMARK BEST PRACTICE BOND BONDS BUSINESS COMMUNITIES CALCULATION CAPACITY BUILDING CAPITAL MARKETS CAPITALISM CENTRALIZATION CHECKS CITIES COLLECTIVE COLLECTIVE ACTION COLONIAL PERIOD COLONIALISM COMMODITY COMPANY COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES COMPARATIVE HISTORY CONSOLIDATION CONTRIBUTION CORPORATE BODIES CORPORATE ENTERPRISE CULTURAL PERFORMANCES CULTURES DECENTRALIZATION DELTA DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS DEPENDENCE DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES DISTRICTS DROUGHT ECOLOGY ECONOMETRIC MODELS ECONOMIC DEPENDENCY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC EXPANSION ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC HISTORIANS ECONOMIC HISTORY ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE EQUALITY ESSAYS ESTATES FAMILIES FAMILY FIRM FAMILY STRUCTURES FINANCIAL SUPPORT FIRST GENERATION FRANCHISE FREE TRADE GDP GEOGRAPHY GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS GROWTH RATE HISTORIANS HISTORICAL ANALYSIS HISTORICAL DATA HISTORICAL EVIDENCE HISTORIOGRAPHY HORN OF AFRICA IDENTITY INCOME INCOME LEVELS INCOMES INCORPORATED INDIGENOUS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INDIGENOUS PEOPLE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT INDUSTRIALIZATION INFERENCE INHERITANCE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY INVESTIGATION KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY LABOR FORCE LACK OF EXPERIENCE LIMITED LITERACY LITERATURE LIVING STANDARDS MARKETING MIDDLE AGES MIDDLE EAST MISSIONARIES MONOPOLISTS MONOPOLY MUNICIPALITIES MYTH NATIONALISM NORTH AFRICA PERCEPTION PHILOSOPHY POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL PARTIES POWER PRE-COLONIAL PERIOD PRESERVATION PRIMARY EDUCATION PRODUCTIVITY PROPERTY RIGHTS PROPRIETARY PROPRIETORSHIP PROSPERITY PUBLIC GOODS RAPID DEVELOPMENT RATE OF GROWTH READING RELIGION RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY SAHARA SALARIES SCHOLARSHIP SCHOOLS SLAVERY SOCIAL GROUPS SOCIAL HISTORY SOCIAL MOVEMENTS SOCIAL ORGANIZATION SOCIAL PROCESSES SOCIETIES SOCIETY SOCIOLOGY SOURCES OF INCOME STATE ACTION STATISTICAL ANALYSIS SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA TAXATION TEMPLE TOWNS TRADITION TRADITIONS TRAVELS UNION VALUABLE VILLAGES WEALTH WEALTH CREATION WESTERN EUROPE WORLD HISTORY WRITERS Bayly, C. A. Indigenous and Colonial Origins of Comparative Economic Development : The Case of Colonial India and Africa |
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This paper concerns the institutional
origins of economic development, emphasizing the cases of
nineteenth-century India and Africa. Colonial
institutions-the law, western style property rights,
newspapers and statistical analysis-played an important part
in the emergence of Indian public and commercial life in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These institutions
existed in the context of a state that was extractive and
yet dependent on indigenous cooperation in many areas,
especially in the case of the business class. In such
conditions, Indian elites were critical in creating informal
systems of peer-group education, enhancing aspiration
through the use of historicist and religious themes and in
creating a "benign sociology" of India as a
prelude to development. Indigenous ideologies and practices
were as significant in this slow enhancement of Indian
capabilities as transplanted colonial ones. Contemporary
development specialists would do well to consider the merits
of indigenous forms of association and public debate,
religious movements and entrepreneurial classes. Over much
of Asia and Africa, the most successful enhancement of
people's capabilities has come through the action of
hybrid institutions of this type. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Bayly, C. A. |
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Bayly, C. A. |
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Bayly, C. A. |
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Indigenous and Colonial Origins of Comparative Economic Development : The Case of Colonial India and Africa |
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Indigenous and Colonial Origins of Comparative Economic Development : The Case of Colonial India and Africa |
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Indigenous and Colonial Origins of Comparative Economic Development : The Case of Colonial India and Africa |
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Indigenous and Colonial Origins of Comparative Economic Development : The Case of Colonial India and Africa |
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Indigenous and Colonial Origins of Comparative Economic Development : The Case of Colonial India and Africa |
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indigenous and colonial origins of comparative economic development : the case of colonial india and africa |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2012 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/01/8941952/indigenous-colonial-origins-comparative-economic-development-case-colonial-india-africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6450 |
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