Evidence on the pre-modern relationship between wealth and fertility has so far almost entirely relied upon data from Europe. We use British colonial records from early 19thcentury India on widow suicides (satis) to show that there is a robust positive relationship between income and fertility. JEL codes: J13, N35, D31

Taking all matters into consideration, the poor woman of this country should be an object of compassion rather than of our contempt The stimulus given to India by British example, and capital employed for the education of Indian females, is not among the least of her beneficial operations. The time will come when their worth shall be duly appreciated by the daughters of India; and then, should ...

English Language Education (ELE) in India has a history of about two hundred years. There were some significant studies ELE during the British rule. The research was mostly carried out second half twentieth century. A cursory review bibliographies reveals that is one less researched sub-disciplines Studies India. In absence separate study on India, present paper modest attempt to evaluate docto...

This paper seeks to explain the pattern of industrial investment in India under British rule. While the export oriented industries, such as tea and jute relied largely on British investment, the major import substituting activity, the cotton textile industry, was dominated by Indian owned firms. While the existing literature has explained the dominant role of British investment mainly using pol...

one of Dr. MeLeod's concluding sentences, " that, if the medico-legal experience acquired by each medical officer who lias held civil office in India since the British occupation had been continuously fixed, and the results of the experience of all arranged, compared, and generalized, a magnificent body of ethnological and medico-legal science of vast practical utility would now exist, which li...