Roy, Tirthankar (Author)
Swamy, Anand V. (Author)
University of Chicago Press
Edition Details: Book Series: Markets and governments in economic history
Physical Details: xii + 240 pp., maps, references, glossary, figures, tables, notes, index
Language: English
Since the economic reforms of the 1990s, India's economy has grown rapidly. To sustain growth and foreign investment over the long run requires a well-developed legal infrastructure for conducting business, including cheap and reliable contract enforcement and secure property rights. But it's widely acknowledged that India's legal infrastructure is in urgent need of reform, plagued by problems, including slow enforcement of contracts and land laws that differ from state to state. How has this situation arisen, and what can boost business confidence and encourage long-run economic growth? Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy trace the beginnings of the current Indian legal system to the years of British colonial rule. They show how India inherited an elaborate legal system from the British colonial administration, which incorporated elements from both British Common Law and indigenous institutions. In the case of property law, especially as it applied to agricultural land, indigenous laws and local political expediency were more influential in law-making than concepts borrowed from European legal theory. Conversely, with commercial law, there was considerable borrowing from Europe. (Worldcat)
...MoreReview Amiya Kumar Bagchi (Summer 2017) Review of "Law and the Economy in Colonial India". Business History Review (pp. 424-428).
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