A delayed revolution: Environment and agrarian change in India

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 239-250

  Roy, Tirthankar ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agricultural technology; Economic history; Green Revolution; South Asia

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN CHANGE; COLONIALISM; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECONOMIC HISTORY; GREEN REVOLUTION; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 44449094558     PISSN: 0266903X     EISSN: 14602121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/grm011     Document Type: Article

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