Tirthankar Roy
Tirthankar Roy is an Indian economic historian and Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics. He is a researcher of the Economic History of South Asia and India, having published over 25 books and numerous articles. His work spans the fields of Economic History, Business History and Social History, particularly studying the effects of British colonialism in India on its economic development.
Biography
Roy received an M.A. in Economics from Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal, India and subsequently his Ph.D. from the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, in 1989. Before joining the London School of Economics, he served as a professor at the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics in Pune, India. He is currently a Professor of Economic History at the LSE. He serves on the editorial boards of internationally recognised journals including the Indian Economic and Social History Review and the Springer Economic History series.Selected publications
- Economic Change in Global History
- A Business History of India: Enterprise and the Emergence of Capitalism from 1700
- The Economy of South Asia from 1950 to the Present
- Law and the Economy in Colonial India
- An Economic History of Early Modern India
- East India Company: The World’s Most Powerful Corporation
- The Economic History of India 1857-1947
- How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles 1500-1850
- Towards a History of Consumption in South Asia
- Company of Kinsmen: Community and Enterprise in South Asian History 1700-1950
- Rethinking Economic Change in India: Labour and Livelihood
- Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India
- Artisans and Industrialization: Indian Weaving in the Twentieth Century,
- Economic Reforms: The Next Step
- Cloth and Commerce: Textiles in Indian History
- ''The Story of Indian Business The East India Company''