- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Editors' Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Stanford Tradition in Economic History
- PART ONE Evolutionary Processes in Economics
- Chapter 2 Natural Resources and Economic Outcomes
- Chapter 3 The Institutionalization of Science in Europe, 1650–1850
- Chapter 4 The Fundamental Impact of the Slave Trade on African Economies
- Chapter 5 Similar Societies, Different Solutions: U.S. Indian Policy in Light of Australian Policy toward Aboriginal Peoples
- Part Two Spatial Processes and Comparative Development
- Chapter 6 Financial Market and Industry Structure: A Comparison of the Banking and Textile Industries in Boston and Philadelphia in the Early Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 7 Railroads and the Rise of the Factory: Evidence for the United States, 1850–1870
- Chapter 8 Productivity Growth and the Regional Dynamics of Antebellum Southern Development
- Chapter 9 Banking on the Periphery: The Cotton South, Systemic Seasonality, and the Limits of National Banking Reform
- Chapter 10 Rural Credit and Mobility in India
- Part Three Revolution in Labor Markets
- Chapter 11 Labor-Market Regimes in U.S. Economic History
- Chapter 12 The Political Economy of Progress: Lessons from the Causes and Consequences of the New Deal
- Chapter 13 Teachers and Tipping Points: Historical Origins of the Teacher Quality Crisis
- Chapter 14 Inequality and Institutions in Twentieth-Century America
- Chapter 15 The Unexpected Long-Run Impact of the Minimum Wage:
- Chapter 16 America's First Culinary Revolution, or How a Girl from Gopher Prairie Came to Dine on Eggs Fooyung
- Appendix Selected Publications of Gavin Wright
- Index
Rural Credit and Mobility in India
Rural Credit and Mobility in India
- Chapter:
- (p.243) Chapter 10 Rural Credit and Mobility in India
- Source:
- Economic Evolution and Revolution in Historical Time
- Author(s):
Susan Wolcott
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
This chapter examines the operation of rural credit markets in the postbellum South in the mirror of colonial India. Using the records of the 1929–1930 Provincial Bank Enquiry Committees (PBECs) and data on Indian rural expenditures and finance from 1951–1952 by the All-India Rural Credit Survey (AIRCS), it investigates the nature of agricultural credit in colonial India in comparison to the Grameen Bank and postbellum U.S. South credit markets. The chapter also explores the relationship of the caste network and the credit system, and then concludes with a discussion of the effect of the credit system on the behavior of Indian cultivators.
Keywords: rural credit markets, credit markets, India, PBECs, Grameen Bank, U.S South
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Editors' Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Stanford Tradition in Economic History
- PART ONE Evolutionary Processes in Economics
- Chapter 2 Natural Resources and Economic Outcomes
- Chapter 3 The Institutionalization of Science in Europe, 1650–1850
- Chapter 4 The Fundamental Impact of the Slave Trade on African Economies
- Chapter 5 Similar Societies, Different Solutions: U.S. Indian Policy in Light of Australian Policy toward Aboriginal Peoples
- Part Two Spatial Processes and Comparative Development
- Chapter 6 Financial Market and Industry Structure: A Comparison of the Banking and Textile Industries in Boston and Philadelphia in the Early Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 7 Railroads and the Rise of the Factory: Evidence for the United States, 1850–1870
- Chapter 8 Productivity Growth and the Regional Dynamics of Antebellum Southern Development
- Chapter 9 Banking on the Periphery: The Cotton South, Systemic Seasonality, and the Limits of National Banking Reform
- Chapter 10 Rural Credit and Mobility in India
- Part Three Revolution in Labor Markets
- Chapter 11 Labor-Market Regimes in U.S. Economic History
- Chapter 12 The Political Economy of Progress: Lessons from the Causes and Consequences of the New Deal
- Chapter 13 Teachers and Tipping Points: Historical Origins of the Teacher Quality Crisis
- Chapter 14 Inequality and Institutions in Twentieth-Century America
- Chapter 15 The Unexpected Long-Run Impact of the Minimum Wage:
- Chapter 16 America's First Culinary Revolution, or How a Girl from Gopher Prairie Came to Dine on Eggs Fooyung
- Appendix Selected Publications of Gavin Wright
- Index