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How do you account for the rise and growth of the Business enterprise in India during the first half of the 20th century?

  • UPSC 1994
  • Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule

The emergence of an indigenous Indian business class during the first half of the twentieth century, despite operating within a colonial economy structurally weighted against it, is one of the more remarkable developments of late-colonial economic history.

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  • The Colonial Industrial Structure Indian Capital Had to Break Into
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