Tirthankar Roy

Tirthankar Roy, (14 February 1960–) is an Indian economic historian and Professor in Economic History at the London School of Economics. His research mainly focuses on economic history, business history, and the history of development. He is particularly interested in the economic, political, and social effects of colonial rule of India during the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.[1][2]

Tirthankar Roy
Born
Tirthankar Roy

(1960-02-14)14 February 1960
Santiniketan, India
NationalityIndian
OccupationEconomist, Economic historian
Known forProfessor in Economic History, London School of Economics

Prior to arriving at LSE, he served as a professor at the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics in Pune, India.[3] He serves on the editorial boards of internationally recognised journals including the Indian Economic and Social History Review and the Springer Economic History series.

Roy received his Ph.D. from the Centre for Development Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1989.[4] He also received an M.A. in economics from Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal, India.[5]

Works
  • Economic Change in Global History (London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Press, TBD)
  • A Business History of India: Enterprise and the Emergence of Capitalism from 1700 (Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2018)
  • The Economy of South Asia from 1950 to the Present (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
  • (With Anand V. Swamy) Law and the Economy in Colonial India (Chicago, United States: University of Chicago Press, 2016)
  • An Economic History of Early Modern India (London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2013)
  • East India Company: The World’s Most Powerful Corporation (New Delhi, India: Allen Lane, 2012)
  • The Economic History of India 1857-1947 (Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2011)
  • (With Giorgio Riell)How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles 1500-1850 (Leiden, Netherlands: E.J. Brill, 2010)
  • (With Douglas Haynes, Abigail McGowan, Haruka Yanagisawa) Towards a History of Consumption in South Asia (Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2010)
  • Company of Kinsmen: Community and Enterprise in South Asian History 1700-1950 (Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2010)
  • Rethinking Economic Change in India: Labour and Livelihood (Abingdon, United Kingdom and New York, United States: Routledge, 2005)
  • Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India (Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 1999)
  • Artisans and Industrialization: Indian Weaving in the Twentieth Century, (Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 1993)
  • (With Ashok Desai) Economic Reforms: The Next Step (Delhi, India: Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, 1998)
  • Cloth and Commerce: Textiles in Indian History (Delhi, India: Sage Publications, 1996)

References
  1. "Tirthankar Roy". Economic & Political Weekly.
  2. "Tirthankar Roy". History Today.
  3. Roy, Tirthankar (2002). "Economic History and Modern India: Redefining the Link". Journal of Economic Perspectives. 16 (3).
  4. "Tirthankar Roy" (PDF). London School of Economics.
  5. "Tirthankar Roy". Orcid.


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