Gupta, Bishnupriya (2013) Discrimination or social networks? Industrial investment in colonial India. Working Paper. Coventry, UK: Department of Economics, University of Warwick. CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Volume 2013 (Number 111).

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Abstract

Industrial investment in Colonial India was segregated by the export oriented industries,
such as tea and jute that relied on British firms and the import substituting cotton textile
industry that was dominated by Indian firms. The literature emphasizes discrimination
against Indian capital. Instead informational factors played an important role. British
entrepreneurs knew the export markets and the Indian entrepreneurs were familiar with the
local markets. The divergent flows of entrepreneurship can be explained by the
comparative advantage enjoyed by social groups in information and the role of social
networks in determining entry and creating separate spheres of industrial investment.

Item Type:	Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper)
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DS Asia H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Investments, British -- India, India -- Economic conditions -- 19th century, Businesspeople -- India, Tea trade -- India, Cotton trade -- India
Series Name:	CAGE Online Working Paper Series
Publisher:	Department of Economics, University of Warwick
Place of Publication:	Coventry, UK
Official Date:	2013
Dates:	Date Event 2013 Published
Volume:	Volume 2013
Number:	Number 111
Number of Pages:	35
Institution:	University of Warwick
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit:	1 August 2016
Date of first compliant Open Access:	1 August 2016
Funder:	Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC)
Grant number:	R000239492 (ESRC)
Version or Related Resource:	Gupta, B. (2013) Discrimination or social networks? Industrial investment in Colonial India. Coventry, UK: University of Warwick, 2013, [1-42]. (Warwick economics research papers series, no.1019). http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/56607
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