This 1971 volume brings together a number of tracts on problems of
India's economic development, particularly in relation to the changes
taking place in her international trade. The first half of the
nineteenth century was a period of important economic transition for
India. A vital aspect of it was the rapid expansion in the volume and
value of Indian foreign trade, accompanied by fundamental structural
changes, which transformed the old eighteenth-century mercantile pattern
of India's trade with the West into a system based on an exchange of
primary commodities for finished manufactured goods. The papers
reprinted here illustrate first the quantitative aspects of Indian trade
in this period, and secondly its institutional and policy features. The
editor provides a full introduction and tables of statistics.