Corporate Enterprise and the Colonial Economy in India in the Early Twentieth Century: A Study of Calcutta and its Vast Surrounding Hinterlands

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India saw the largest agglomeration of corporate enterprise in Asia on the eve of the Second World War. This article is a study of Calcutta and its hinterlands in the subcontinent's economic development, by investigating a large set of primary data of joint stock companies in colonial India. By so doing, the authors found that eastern India experienced a 'monocentric' pattern of agglomeration in terms of an all-India economic geography of joint stock companies, in which Calcutta took the lead as the commercial and industrial centres. It is also argued that these features grew out of India's strong involvement, to a more heightened degree, in inland trade and foreign trade during the British rule. Geographical Information System (GIS) mapping techniques is utilized to infer variations in urban growth, spatial structure, and economic development in eastern India and within Calcutta.

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  • 経済学雑誌

    経済学雑誌 120 (2), 57-78, 2020-06

    大阪市立大学経済学会

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