TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tirthankar Roy
AU  -  Anand V. Swamy
TI  - LAW AND THE ECONOMY IN INDIA: : Before Independence and After
SN  - 9789362134066
U1  - 342.5409034  
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Haryana
PB  - Harper Collins
KW  - Law and the economy in colonial India
KW  - Constitutional and administrative law
KW  - Law and the economy of young democracy
N1  - Law matters for economic development, but where does it come from? And through what mechanisms does it affect different parts of the economy? In this insightful volume Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy start in the late eighteenth century, tracing the evolution of the British-Indian legal system as it emerged in the service of a cautious and self-serving colonial regime. They show that British-Indian law was designed to facilitate tax collection, permit international trade, and, above all, keep the regime in place. Since independence the Indian state has been much more confident and ambitious, seeking economic growth, equity, and poverty reduction. Therefore, it has also been far more interventionist, in policy and in law. Roy and Swamy have put together this entire two-hundred-fifty-year legal and economic history in a single narrative, for the first time, offering a unique perspective on the challenges of today
ER  -