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Questioning Roy's Interpretation

Tirthankar Roy’s “The Economic Legacies of Colonial Rule in India: Another Look” (EPW, 11 April 2015) was expectedly stimulating and informative —but I would like to raise a couple of questions.

First, the role of expatriate technologists in the pre-independence and even the post-independence Indian industrial development, regardless of ownership or management, is certainly a subject of interest, as is the effort to develop Indian expertise. Given the detailed census figures for Europeans and their characteristics it should be possible to quantify it.

Tirthankar Roy’s “The Economic Legacies of Colonial Rule in India: Another Look” (EPW, 11 April 2015) was expectedly stimulating and informative —but I would like to raise a couple of questions.

First, the role of expatriate technologists in the pre-independence and even the post-independence Indian industrial development, regardless of ownership or management, is certainly a subject of interest, as is the effort to develop Indian expertise. Given the detailed census figures for Europeans and their characteristics it should be possible to quantify it.

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