Agriculture, Labour, and the Standard of Living in Eighteenth-Century India

Living Standards in the Past: New Perspectives on Well-Being in Asia and Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Prasannan, Parthasarathi ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; India; Investment; Irrigation; Labour market; Labour mobility; State; Wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920100007     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199280681.003.0005     Document Type: Chapter

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