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Identify the main features of industrial development in India from 1914 to 1947 with special reference to the emergence of a class of factory labourers.

  • UPSC 1989
  • Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule

The years between the outbreak of the First World War and Independence mark colonial India's first sustained, though structurally lopsided, wave of large-scale factory industry.

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  • The Wartime Stimulus, 1914–18
  • Interwar "Discriminating Protection" and the Indianisation of Capital
  • The Second World War and Its Industrial Push
  • Structural Features and Limits of the New Industrialisation
  • The Rise of Two New Social Classes
  • The Making of a Factory Labour Class
  • …and 3 more sections, with a conclusion

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