Classical Political Economy and British Policy in India

by S. Ambirajan

Book Overview

This book examines the effect of Classical political economy -- the economic and monetary writings of Adam Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, the Mills and others -- on the policy-making of the British government in India in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Professor Ambirajan shows how the economic doctrines of laissez-faire individualism and the freedom of market forces were instilled into the British administrative class. The East India Company's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521214157
• ISBN13: 9780521214155
• Release Date: June 1978
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.