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Trade, tariffs, and empire : Lancashire and British policy in India, 1919-1939

Title: Trade, tariffs, and empire : Lancashire and British policy in India, 1919-1939 / Basudev Chatterji.
Author: Chatterji, Basudev.
Publication: Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

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xiv, 521 pages; 22 cm

Summary

The period between the end of the First World War and the outbreak of the Second was one of major disturbances in the international economy. These resulted in important changes in Britain and India, and in their relationship. This book analyses the extent and quality of changes within the economic aspects of British imperialism in India, and explores the calculations and compulsions that went into the making of economic policy in London and Delhi between 1919 and 1939. The main focus is on the Lancashire textile industry, the decline of whose India trade during this period was of both absolute and symbolic significance in the history of Indo-British relations. The affairs of Lancashire are studied within the broader context of the decline and eventual collapse of the pre-1914 international economic order; the influence of British industrial and financial interests; and the imperatives arising out of massive unemployment in Britain. At the same time, policy-making in India is examined in the context of nationalism; the threats posed to the Raj by growing political activity; the economic interests and political attitudes of businessmen; and the priorities of the Government of India. Situated within this comprehensive context, the story of Lancashire provides a useful medium of analysis for the larger themes of economic and political change, and their relative importance in the reshaping of Britain's imperial system. Drawing on a wealth of private and official sources, this book provides fresh insights into the purposes and strategies of the Raj in its penultimate phase. It criticizes and complements current historiography on British imperialism in India, as well as on the process of decolonization.

Subject

Note

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Cambridge University, 1978).
Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [483]-512).

Contents

Pt. I. Britain and India Between the Wars: An Overview -- 1. Introduction: Lancashire and British Policy in India -- 2. Britain, India and the World Economy: 1919 -- 1939 -- Britain, Empire and the International Economy. Table A -- Commodity Pattern of World Trade in Manufacturing -- Table B -- Share of U.K. Exports by Commodities -- Table C -- Trends in U.K. Unit Export Price Relative to her Competitors 1899 = 100 -- Table D -- Share of U.K. Exports going to India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa -- Table E -- U.K. Exports and U.K. GNP -- British Commerce and India. Table F -- U.K. Exports to India -- Table G -- U.K. Share of the Indian Market -- Table H -- Absolute amounts (in value or weight or number terms) of U.K. exports to India in comparison with total Indian imports in each category -- Financial Stake. Table J -- Indian Invisible Remittance to the U.K. over the period 1922-36 -- ^ British Investment in the Private Sector: Expatriate and Metropolitan -- Political Economy of the Raj. Table K -- Income, Production, Prices, Bank Rate and Money Supply in India, 1919-39 -- 3. British Economy and the Lancashire Cotton Industry -- Imperial Options -- Industrial Reconstruction and 'Rationalization' -- Rise and Fall of Lancashire's Trade: An Overview -- Reorganization of the Lancashire Industry and Government Policy -- Rationalization and Labour Trouble -- Rationalization and Over-capacity -- Lancashire and the Indian Market. Table L -- Percentage Shares of Indian, British, and Japanese Goods (By Commodity Classes) in the Indian Market Between 1917 and 1935 -- Pt. II. Lancashire and Policy-Making in India -- 4. From 'Discriminating Laissez Faire' to 'Discriminatory Protection' -- Post War Developments: Lancashire and Indian Fiscal Policy -- Fiscal Imperative -- Lancashire's Defence -- ^
5. Abolition of the Cotton Excise, 1925 -- History of the Excise -- Bombay's Problems. Table M -- Percentage of Total Production -- War and After -- Demand for Relief -- Workers' Strike -- Lancashire's Response and Government's Decision -- 6. Discriminating Protection and Fiscal Autonomy in Operation: 1926 -- 1929 -- Bombay and the Tariff Board Inquiry: 1926-7 -- Lancashire and London -- Findings and Reactions -- Official Expertise and Rejection -- Aftermath: Nationalists, Millowners and Millworkers -- Budget of 1929 -- Budgetary Problem -- Which Duties? -- Lancashire and 'Specific Duties' -- Hardy Enquiry-1929 -- Troubles in Bombay -- 7. Cotton, Sterling and Politics in the 1930s -- Depression, Government, Nationalists and Businessmen in the Early 1930s -- Indian 'Big' Business and Politics in the Early 1930s -- Response of British Businessmen -- Depression, Finance and Cotton Duties -- 1930-1 -- More Depression, More Duties -- 1931 -- End of Compromise: Agitation in Lancashire -- 8. Imperial Economic Cooperation: Lancashire, Ottawa and After -- Japanese Competition: Bombay and Lancashire -- Lancahire's Revolt and the Lees-Mody Pact -- Negotiations -- Indo-Japanese Agreement and Lancashire -- Supplementary Agreement -- Aftermath of the Supplementary Agreement -- Attitude of Lancashire: The Tariff Board of 1936 -- Denunciation of Ottawa and Supplementary Agreements -- 9. Lancashire and the Making of the Indo-British Trade Agreement, 1939 -- Preliminaries to New Negotiations -- Clearing the Decks -- Indian Capitalists, the Congress and the New Agreement -- Negotiating the New Agreement.

ISBN

0195628152
9780195628159

LCCN

92908213

OCLC

ocm26901656
26901656
SCSB-2005187

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library