Italian Scholars on India Vol. 2 (History, Economy, Society)

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This book aims to highlight the contribution of Italian scholars to the study of modern and contemporary India, by collecting a number of essays by some of the most representative Italian students of India. These essays analyse the evolution of Indian society through case studies chronologically ranging from the 16th century to the present day, focussed on an extensive set of topics. The colonial impact on Indian society, its reaction to it; the political and social evolution of independent India; the strength and weaknesses of its economy are put under the lenses of six historians, three economists and an anthropologist. The 10 case studies are prefaced by an historiographical essay which sketches out the distinctive Italian tradition of Indian studies and shows the connection of each of the remaining 10 articles to it.

ELISABETTA BASILE (DPhil Oxford) is a political economy scholar working on contemporary India. A retired full Professor of Development Economics at the University of Rome La Sapienza, she has been a co-founder of the Global Asia WG of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutions (EADI) and is a member of the BRICS Lab of EURISPES, an Italian institute for political, economic and social studies.

MICHELGUGLIELMO TORRI (born on 18 October 1945) is the doyen of the Italian historians working on India. A former Harkness fellow at Berkeley (University of California-Berkeley) and a retired full Professor of Asian History (University of Turin), he is currently the scientific director of Asia Maior - An Italian think tank on Asia.

The aim of this volume is to provide the reader with a broad though not exhaustive overview of Indian Studies in Italy. The term «Indian studies» describes the study of India by making use of the methodological tools of the social sciences, such as history, po- litical economy/economics, anthropology, sociology, modern litera- tures, etc. In this sense, Indian studies strongly differ from <