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Classical Political Economy and British Policy in India
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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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From THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF INDIA (1858-1947) (2016) · cites this paper as Ambirajan 1978
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- Authors
- Ambirajan, S.
- Corresponding author
- Ambirajan, S.
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 1978-06-15
- OpenAlex
- W4206144818
- Cited by
- 188
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 10.64
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- 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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