The Development of Modern Industries in Bengal: ReIndustrialisation, 1858-1914

Bengal's traditional industries, once celebrated worldwide, largely decayed under the backwash effects of the British Industrial Revolution in the first half of the nineteenth century. Although colonial ambivalence is often cited as an explanation, this study also shows that a series of new industries emerged during this period.

The book reappraises the thesis of India's deindustrialisation and discusses the development status of the traditional industries in the early nineteenth century, e...