01657nam a22002177a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801440007608200150022010000220023510000230025724500860028026000480036630000290041436500080044352009320045165000100138365000120139365000140140570000200141920250603125726.0250603b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9789362134066  a: International Book Distributorsb: Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, Building No. 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj.c: 121740d: 19/05/2025  a349.54 ROY  aRoy, Tirthankar.   a; Swamy, Anand V.   aLaw and the Economy in Indiab: Before Independence and After.c/ Tirthankar Roy.  aChicagob : University of Chicagoc , 2016.  axii, 240 pages c: 24cm.  b559  aLaw 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.  a Law   aEconomy  aSociology  aTirthankar Roy