Ahmad, Nafis. AN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY OF EAST PAKISTAN. | £28.00 | |||||
361pp. Index. 56 maps and 59 tables. Very good indeed in like dustwrapper. An excellent copy. 1958 First edition, Oxford University Press. | ||||||
Ahmed, Akbar S. PUKHTUN ECONOMY AND SOCIETY. | £35.00 | |||||
Traditional Structure and Economic Development in a Tribal Society. 406pp. Index. Based on field-work in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan's N.W.Frontier Province. The author was political Agent, South Waziristan Agency. Fine in very good dustwrapper. 1980 First edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul. | ||||||
Alexander, K.C. AGRARIAN TENSION IN THANJAVUR. | £10.00 | |||||
192pp. Index. Study into conflicts between cultivators and labourers. Very good in dw with loss to front panel. 1975 First edition, Hyderabad. | ||||||
Ambirajan, S. A GRAMMAR OF INDIAN PLANNING. | £5.00 | |||||
200pp. An introduction to India's Five Year Plans. Section cut from front endpaper. Otherwise very good in very good dw. 1959 First edition, Popular Book Depot, Bombay. | ||||||
Anon. THE INDIAN PROBLEM SOLVED. | £14.00 | |||||
Undeveloped Wealth and State Reproductive Works in India. Ways to Prevent Famine and increase the Material Progress of India. 395pp. Index. Much detail by many contributors on agriculture, famine and irrigation. A study of the effects of canals and their potental. Very good indeed. Largely uncut. No date (preface dated 1874), Virtue, Spalding & Co. | ||||||
Anon. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE BURMA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. | £40.00 | |||||
134pp. There is no title page but no indication of anything having been removed. Stiff card boards with cloth backstrip. Very good. No date (1950s) Rangoon. | ||||||
Anon. BURMA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ANNUAL REPORTS FOR 1955-1956. | £25.00 | |||||
83pp. List of current members and former officers back to 1877. Stiff card boards with cloth backstrip. Very good. No date (1950s) Rangoon. | ||||||
Bailey, F.G. CASTE AND THE ECONOMIC FRONTIER. | £14.00 | |||||
A village in highland Orissa. 292pp. Index. 8 plates of b/w photographs. Fine. 1971 Reprint, Manchester University Press. | ||||||
Baker, J.Mark. THE KUHLS OF KANGRA. | £12.00 | |||||
Community-Managed Irrigation in the Western Himalaya. 271pp. Index. Water-management in a social and political context. Fine in fine dw. 2005 University of Washington Press, Seattle. | ||||||
Bauer, P.T. INDIAN ECONOMIC POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT. | £10.00 | |||||
152pp. Index. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper. Owner's name. 1961 First edition, Allen & Unwin. | ||||||
Bose, Sugata. PEASANT LABOUR AND COLONIAL CAPITAL: RURAL BENGAL SINCE 1770. | £18.00 | |||||
203 pp. Index. New Cambridge History of India. Ex-public library copy with minimal markings. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1993 First edition, Cambridge University Press. | ||||||
Braund, H.E.W. CALLING TO MIND. | £22.00 | |||||
An account of the first hundred years of Steel Brothers and Company Limited. 151pp. Index. Trading with Burma from 1870 in teak, rice and oil. Fine in very good dw with faded spine panel. The company's presentation label 1975 First edition, Pergamon Press. | ||||||
Brayne, F.L. SOCRATES IN AN INDIAN VILLAGE. | £22.00 | |||||
130pp. 12 plates. The Gurgaon Experiment of rural Improvement. Conversations between the author and villagers cast as Socratic dialogues. Foreword by the Viceroy. See Dewey, 'Anglo-Indian Attitudes'. Very good. 1929 First edition, Oxford University Press, India. | ||||||
Brayne, F.L. BETTER VILLAGES. | £10.00 | |||||
296pp. Index. 16 b/w photographs. The theory and practice of 'Village Uplift'. Ex-college library copy. Very good. 1938 Second edition, Oxford University Press, India. | ||||||
Brown, Hillton. PARRY'S OF MADRAS. | £18.00 | |||||
A Story of British Enterprise in India. 347pp. Index. 15 b/w photographs and a folded map. History of a leading business house in Madras. Very good indeed. 1954 First edition, Madras. Privately published by Parry and Co. | ||||||
Burns, W. (edits). SONS OF THE SOIL. | £12.00 | |||||
Studies of the Indian Cultivator. 135pp. Chapters from every province of India by Directors of Agriculture. Photographs in b/w. Very good. 1944 Second edition, Manager of Publications, Delhi. | ||||||
Burra, Neera. BORN TO WORK | £5.00 | |||||
Child Labour in India. 285pp. Index. 16 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1995 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi. | ||||||
Charlesworth, Neil. PEASANTS AND IMPERIAL RULE. | £14.00 | |||||
Agriculture and Agrarian Society in the Bombay Presidency, 1850-1935. 319pp. Index. Fine in very good dustwrapper with faded spine panel and one short tear. Owner's name. 1985 First edition, Cambridge University Press. | ||||||
Dale, Stephen Frederick. INDIAN MERCHANTS AND EURASIAN TRADE 1600-1750. | £32.00 | |||||
162pp. Index. Study of the penetration of Iran, Central Asia and Russia by Indian merchant families. Fine in fine dw. 1994 First edition, Canbridge University Press. | ||||||
Darling, Malcolm L. THE PUNJAB PEASANT IN PROSPERITY AND DEBT. | £25.00 | |||||
277pp. Index. 6 b/w illustrations and 4 maps. ICS officer's study of the rural economy. Very good in dw with slight loss. 1947 Reprint, Oxford University Press, India. | ||||||
Darling, Malcolm L. THE PUNJAB PEASANT IN PROSPERITY AND DEBT. | £21.00 | |||||
277pp. Index. 6 b/w illustrations and 4 maps. ICS officer's study of the rural economy. Ex-university library. Very good. Owner's name. 1928 Second edition, Oxford University Press, India. | ||||||
Datta, Kaloll (introduces). BY STRENGTH AND COURAGE. | £45.00 | |||||
Commemorative Volume Celebrating 150 Years of Andrew Yule in India. 247pp. 4to. Photographs in colour and b/w. Company history. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2013 Andrew Yule & Co Ltd. | ||||||
Dewey, Clive J. (edits). THE STATE AND THE MARKET. | £10.00 | |||||
Studies in the Economic and Social History of the Third World. 355pp. Index. Very good in very good dw. 1987 First, Riverdale Company, Maryland. | ||||||
Drummond, Ian M. BRITISH ECONOMIC POLICY AND THE EMPIRE 1919-1939. | £10.00 | |||||
241pp. Index. Ex-public library copy with minimal markings. Very good in very good dw. 1972 First, Allen & Unwin. | ||||||
Dutt, Romesh. THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF INDIA. | £25.00 | |||||
In 2 vols. 462 and 304pp. Index. Card covers. Vol 1 - 1757-1837, Vol 2 - 1837-1900. Classic analysis of India's impoverishment, first published in 1903. Very good. 1963, Ministry of Information Publications Division, Delhi. | ||||||
Farmer, B.H. PIONEER PEASANT COLONISATION IN CEYLON. | £13.00 | |||||
A Study in Asian Agrarian Problems. 387pp. Index. 24 b/w photograhs, 12 maps and 29 tables. Policies to move population into the 'dry zone'. From the library of the Commonwealth Relations Office. Very good. 1957 First edition, Oxford University Press. | ||||||
Gadgil, D.R. THE INDUSTRIAL EVOLUTION OF INDIA IN RECENT TIMES. | £12.00 | |||||
327pp. Index. Very good. 1933 Third edition, Oxford University Press, India. | ||||||
Gordon, Sandy. INDIA'S RISE TO POWER | £16.00 | |||||
in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. 414pp. Index. An anaysis of the political and economic forces driving modern India. Fine in fine dw. 1995 First edition, Macmillan. | ||||||
Gough, Kathleen. RURAL SOCIETY IN SOUTHEAST INDIA 1950s TO 1980s. | £22.00 | |||||
458pp. Index. Study contrasting caste and class in two villages of Thanjavar Dirstrict. Very good in very good dw. 1981 First edition, Cambridge University Press, Delhi. | ||||||
Hardy, Anthony J. TYPHOON WALLEN. | £24.00 | |||||
A personalised chronicle of the Wallen Group Limited. 206pp. Endpaper maps of Shanghai and Hong Kong. Photographs on colour and b/w. History of shipping companty based first in Shanghai and later Hong Kong. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2003 First edition, Granta, Cambridge. | ||||||
Harris, Frank. JAMSETJI NUSSERWANJI TATA. | £12.00 | |||||
A Chronicle of his Life. 339pp. Index. 28 b/w plates. Biography of Indian industrialist. First published in 1925. Very good in complete but rubbed dustwrapper. Owner's name 1958 Second edition, Blackie and Sons, Bombay.. | ||||||
Hodgson, G.H. THOMAS PARRY. | £15.00 | |||||
Free Merchant Madras 1768-1824. 357pp. 27 b/w illustrations. Very good in worn dw. Boards marked under the wrapper. Otherwise a nice copy. 1938 First edition, Higginbothams, Madras. | ||||||
Hough, E.M. THE CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT IN INDIA. | £13.00 | |||||
402pp. Index. A revised and enlarged edition. Very good. Cloth darkening a little. 1950 Second edition, Oxford University Press. | ||||||
Hyde, Francis E. FAR EASTERN TRADE 1860-1914. | £14.00 | |||||
229pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1973 First edition, A.& C.Black. | ||||||
Indian Mines Act. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CHIEF INSPECTOR OF MINES IN INDIA for the Year Ending 31 December 1933. | £21.00 | |||||
172pp. Cardboard wrappers. Much on output, accidents and prosecutions. Paper spine has been taped. Otherwise very good. 1934 Manager of Publications, Delhi. | ||||||
Indian Mines Act. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CHIEF INSPECTOR OF MINES IN INDIA for the Year Ending 31 December 1930. | £21.00 | |||||
191pp. Cardboard wrappers. Much on output, accidents and prosecutions. Paper spine has been taped. Otherwise very good. 1931 Manager of Publications, Delhi. | ||||||
Jain, A.K. THE MAKING OF A METROPOLIS. | £14.00 | |||||
Planning and Growth of Delhi. 283pp. Index. Very good in very good dw. 1990 First edition, National Book Organisation, New Delhi. | ||||||
Jones, Geoffrey. BANKING AND OIL. | £45.00 | |||||
The History of the British Bank in the Middle East, Volume 2. 359pp. Index. Very good indeed in fine dustwrapper. 1987 First edition, Cambridge University Press. | ||||||
Keynes, John Maynard. INDIAN CURRENCY AND FINANCE. | £16.00 | |||||
184pp. Index. Volume I of the Collected Writings. Ex-college library. Very good indeed in very good dw. 1971 Reprint Macmillan for the Royal Economic Society. | ||||||
Kohli, Atul. THE STATE AND POVERTY IN INDIA. | £16.00 | |||||
The Politics of Reform. 260pp. Index. Compares the performance of state governments in West Bengal, Karnataka and UP. Very good in fine dw. 1987 First, Oxford University Press. | ||||||
Lal, Deepak. REVIVING THE INVISIBLE HAND. | £10.00 | |||||
The Case for Classical Liberalism in the Twenty-First Century. 320pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 2006 First edition, Princeton University Press. | ||||||
Lal, Deepak. THE HINDU EQUILIBRIUM. | £35.00 | |||||
In 2 Vols. Volume 1 'Cultural Stability and Economic Stagnation' 345pp. Volume 2 'Aspects of Indian Labour' 197pp. Index to each volume. Very slightly bent. Otherwise fine in slightly faded dws. 1988 and 1989 First editions, At the Clarendon Press, Oxford. | ||||||
Ludden, David. AN AGRARIAN HISTORY OF SOUTH ASIA. | £28.00 | |||||
xiii + 261pp. Index. Volume in the New Cambridge History of India. Fine in fine dw. 1999 First edition, Cambridge University Press. | ||||||
Moore, Mick. THE STATE AND PEASANT POLITICS IN SRI LANKA. | £21.00 | |||||
328pp. Index. Cambridge South Asian Studies 34. The economic and political causes and consequences of ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka Very good in very good dw. Paper starting to brown at edges. 1985 First edition, Cambridge University Press. | ||||||
Narasimham, N.V.A. A SHORT TERM PLANNING MODEL FOR INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
xiii + 93pp. Card covers. Very good indeed. 1956 North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam. | ||||||
Nossiter, T.J. MARXIST STATE GOVERNMENTS IN INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
Politics, Economics and Society. 212pp. Bibliography and index. Card covers. Fine. 1988 First, Pinter Publishers. | ||||||
Parekh, M.P et al (edit). NEHRU AND INDIA'S LABOUR MOVEMENT, | £10.00 | |||||
106pp. Very good in very good dw. 1991 Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi | ||||||
Pavlov, V.I. HISTORICAL PREMISES FOR INDIA'S TRANSITION TO CAPITALISM. | £12.00 | |||||
390pp. Boards a little rubbed. Owner's name. 1978 Nauka Publishing House, Moscow. | ||||||
Pearse, Arno S. THE COTTON INDUSTRY OF INDIA. | £18.00 | |||||
306pp, 26pp advertisments. 27 b/w photographs. Appendix listing the cotton mills of India and their production. Very good indeed. An excellent copy. 1930 International Cotton Federation. | ||||||
Randhawa, M.S.(edits). DEVELOPING VILLAGE INDIA. | £13.00 | |||||
Studies in Village Problems. 290pp. 107 b/w plates. Edited by ICS officer and written by 'the greatest experts' partly for the use of District Officers. First edition published in 1946. Very good in chipped dw. Boards a little bowed. 1951 Revised edition, Orient Longmans. | ||||||
Rao, K.L. INDIA'S WATER WEALTH. | £15.00 | |||||
267pp double-column. 4to. 9 large folding maps. Many other maps, tables and diagrams. Near-fne in very good dustwrapper. 1995 Reprint, Orient Longman, New Delhi. | ||||||
Rosenstein-Rodan, P.N. CAPITAL FORMATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. | £12.00 | |||||
Studies in ther Economic Development of India, 164pp. Index. Very good indeed in like dw. Owner's name. 1964 First edition, M.I.T.Press. | ||||||
Rothermund, Dieter. AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF INDIA from Pre-Colonial Times to 1986. | £5.00 | |||||
214pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1988 First edition, Croom Helm. | ||||||
Rothermund, Dietmar. INDIA: THE RISE OF AN ASIAN GIANT. | £5.00 | |||||
274pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 2008 First edition, Yale University Press. | ||||||
Rungta, Radhe Shyam. RISE OF BUSINESS CORPORATIONS IN INDIA 1851-1900. | £36.00 | |||||
332pp. Index. Fine in near-fine dustwrapper. 1970 First edition, Cambridge University Press. | ||||||
Russell, Wilfrid. MERCHANT IN A MIRROR. | £14.00 | |||||
264pp. Index. Autobiography of a Bombay merchant 1935-56. Very good in chipped dw. 1961 First edition, Thacker, Bombay. | ||||||
Russell, Wilfrid. MERCHANT IN A MIRROR. | £21.00 | |||||
264pp. Index. Autobiography of a Bombay merchant 1935-56.Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author. Very good indeed. 1961 First edition, Thacker, Bombay. | ||||||
Saunders, Hilary St.George. VALIANT VOYAGING. | £22.00 | |||||
A short history of the British India Steam Navigation Company in the second world war 1939-1945. 216pp. Index and Roll of Honour. 13 photographs, 1 in colour and 2 endpaper maps. Very good. Some spotting to edges. 1948 First edition, Faber. | ||||||
Scott, W.R. THE CONSTITUTION AND FINANCE OF ENGLISH SCOTTISH AND IRISH JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES TO 1720. | £550.00 | |||||
Complete in 3 vols, lvi + 488, 504 and 563pp. Index to each volume. In the original black cloth. Top edges gilt. Very good indeed. A lovely set. A little very light spotting. 1912 First edition, at the University Press, Cambridge | ||||||
Sharma, Ram Sharan. LIGHT ON EARLY INDIAN SOCIETY AND ECONOMY. | £12.00 | |||||
168pp. Index. Very good in like dw. Owner's name. Some spotting to fore-edge. 1966 First edition, Manaktalas, Bombay. | ||||||
Sharma, Ram Sharan. INDIAN FEUDALISM: c300-1200. | £24.00 | |||||
319pp. Index. Presentation copy signed by the author. Very good in chipped dw. 1965 First edition, University of Calcutta. | ||||||
Siddiqui, Asiya. AGRARIAN CHANGE IN A NORTH INDIAN STATE. | £14.00 | |||||
Uttar Pradesh 1819-1833. 212pp. Index Fine. 1973 First edition, Oxford University Press. | ||||||
Siddiqui, Asiya. AGRARIAN CHANGE IN A NORTH INDIAN STATE. | £21.00 | |||||
Uttar Pradesh 1819-1833. 212pp. Index Fine in fine dw. 1973 First edition, Oxford University Press. | ||||||
Singh, Khushwant and Joshi, Arun. SHRI RAM. | £10.00 | |||||
A Biography. Biography of industrialist. Edges darkening in chipped dw. 1968 Asia Publishing House, India. | ||||||
Staines, James Richard. COUNTRY BORN. | £14.00 | |||||
One Man's Life in India 1909-1947. 288pp. Born and educated in India, the author worked for Burmah-Shell. Fine in near-fine dw with faded spine. 1986 First edition, Croscombe Press. | ||||||
Staines, James Richard. COUNTRY BORN. | £18.00 | |||||
One Man's Life in India 1909-1947. 288pp. Born and educated in India, the author worked for Burmah-Shell. Fine in very good dw with faded spine panel. 1986 First edition, Croscombe Press. | ||||||
Stone, Ian. CANAL IRRIGATION IN BRITISH INDIA. | £18.00 | |||||
Perspectives on Technological Change in a Peasant Economy. 374pp. Index. Fine in very good dustwrapper with faded spine panel. 1984 First edition, Cambridge University Press. | ||||||
Thorner, Alice ( edits). LAND, LABOUR AND RIGHTS. | £10.00 | |||||
The Daniel Thorner Memorial Lectures. 279pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 2001 First edition, Tulika, New Delhi. | ||||||
Tyson, Geoffrey. 100 YEARS OF BANKING IN ASIA AND AFRICA. | £12.00 | |||||
A History of National and Grindlay's Bank Limited 1863-1963. 246pp. Index. Fine. 1963 First edition by the Bank. | ||||||
Vollmer, Keall and Nagai-Berthrong. SILK ROADS : CHINA SHIPS. | £10.00 | |||||
An Exhibition of East-West Trade. 240pp. Exhibition catalogue from Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. Fully illustrated in colour and b/w. Maps. Very good indeed. Slight curl to edge of front wrapper. 1983 Toronto, | ||||||
von Furer-Haimendorf, Cristoph. HIMALAYAN TRADERS. | £16.00 | |||||
Life in Highland Nepal. 316pp. Index. 44 b/w photographs and 7 maps. Fine in fine dw. 1975 First, Murray. | ||||||
Wallace, Robert. INDIA IN 1887. | £58.00 | |||||
363pp. Index. Folding map. 71 plates (2 of mangoes in colour, 13 beautifully drawn plates of grasses). In the original red cloth. Survey of Indian agriculture by Edinburgh University professor. Much detail on cattle and cereals. Inscribed 'with the author's compliments'. Very good indeed. Armorial bookplate. 1888 First edition, Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh. | ||||||
Willcocks, Sir William. ANCIENT IRRIGATION IN BENGAL. | £40.00 | |||||
128pp. Folding map. A discussion of the restoration of the pre-British irrigation systems. Very good. Some pencil marks in margins. 1930 University of Calcutta. | ||||||
Wolf, Martin. INDIA'S EXPORTS. | £5.00 | |||||
xiv + 203pp. Index. Very good indeed. An outstanding copy. 1982 Oxford University Press for the World Bank. | ||||||
Wyon, John B. and Gordon, John E. THE KHANNA STUDY. | £5.00 | |||||
Population Problems in the Rural Punjab. 437pp. Index. 119 figures and illustrations. Very good indeed in rubbed dustwrapper. 1971 First edition, Harvard University Press. | ||||||
Yalland, Zoe. BOXWALLAHS. | £35.00 | |||||
The British in Cawnpore 1857-1901. 504pp. Index. Many b/w illustrations. A study of the families who created a great industrial city in India in the aftermath of the Mutiny. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An outstanding copy. 1994 First edition, Michael Russell. |
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