or if you mean, how is he safe holding the views he does.... well he escaped to LSE!
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more of the latter.. badly formulated thot. I guess in my circle it is hard to imagine an Indian w/o moral posturing on EIC
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another Indian prof in the UK Bishnupriya Gupta has an equally crime-thinky piece on the EIC:https://twitter.com/pseudoerasmus/status/801460230961922048 …
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I hasten to add that I dont read like u guys. For all I know, he may be into moral posturing, I only read one book :)
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lol. his claim to fame is that 'deindustrialisation' is exaggerated! (PhD thesis)
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also his view on economic impact of British rule: varied from no impact to mildly beneficial
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Skeptical of course because baseline could be counterfactual - industrialization similar to Japan under Marathas
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A speculative conversationhttps://devayasna.wordpress.com/2016/09/03/conversations-a-future-that-could-have-been/ …
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will check later. But maps showing Marhatta empire hide fact that state-level organization was very weak..
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not at all like Japan..
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Yep the imagined system was a proto-Shogunate under the Peshwas.
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