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Discrimination or social networks? Industrial investment in colonial India

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Gupta, Bishnupriya (2014) Discrimination or social networks? Industrial investment in colonial India. The Journal of Economic History , 74 (1). pp. 141-168. doi:10.1017/S0022050714000059 ISSN 0022-0507.

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Abstract

Industrial investment in colonial India was segregated by the export industries, such as tea and jute that relied on British firms and the import substituting cotton textile industry that was dominated by Indian firms. Empirical evidence in this article does not suggest that barriers to entry faced by Indian entrepreneurs created this separation. Informational asymmetry played an important role. British entrepreneurs knew the export markets and the Indian entrepreneurs were familiar with local markets. Conditional on the initial advantage in entry, social network effects determined subsequent entry of firms by ethnicity and created separate spheres of industrial investment.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: D History General and Old World > DS Asia
H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Bombay (India) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century, Calcutta (India) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century, Bombay (India) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century, Calcutta (India) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century, Jute industry -- India, Tea trade -- India, Cotton textile industry -- India, Social networks, Discrimination
Journal or Publication Title: The Journal of Economic History
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISSN: 0022-0507
Official Date: 24 February 2014
Dates:
DateEvent
24 February 2014Published
1 September 2013Accepted
Volume: 74
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 141-168
DOI: 10.1017/S0022050714000059
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 16 January 2017
Date of first compliant Open Access: 17 January 2017
Funder: Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC)
Grant number: Research Grant R000239492

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