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Classical Political Economy and British Policy in India

Ambirajan, S.·1978·Cambridge University Press eBooks
DOI 10.1017/cbo9780511563195
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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 college at Haileybury was the most obvious agent but it is clear that a whole nexus of taught and unconscious attitudes predisposed the administrators to accept the ideas and ideologies of the economists.

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Authors
Ambirajan, S.
Corresponding author
Ambirajan, S.
Venue
Cambridge University Press eBooks
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Published
1978-06-15
DOI
10.1017/cbo9780511563195
OpenAlex
W4206144818
Cited by
188
References
0
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 3
FWCI
10.64
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 11612 d)
Locations
Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Theory and Influence
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Historical Economic and Legal Thought
Keywords
classical economics, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Robert Malthus, John Stuart Mill, free market, market individualism, East India Company, colonial officials, nineteenth-century India

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