Human resource management in the days of John Company, 1790-1850

De, Sarmistha

ISBN: 9789381703908, 9381703906

The author's probing study of a rich body of archival material documenting the administrative and financial transactions of the British East India Company in India, opens up for the first time the internal politics of a colonial system engaged in handling foreign and local employees sharing the burden of trading and governing simultaneously in unequal and discriminatory relations; and building ...

The Indian railways: a study in public utility administration

Prasad, Amba

ISBN: 9789391982140, 939198214X

The book is a compelling account of Indian railways as a prime example of public service industry and it historicises linkages between profitability, productivity and attainment of consumers' interests.

An economic history of India 1707-1857, 2nd edn.

Roy, Tirthankar

ISBN: 9781032708164, 1032708166

This new edition extends the timespan of the analysis to incorporate further research. This allows for a more detailed discussion of the rise of the British Empire in South Asia and gives a fuller context for the historiography. In the years between the death of the emperor Aurangzeb (1707) and the Great Rebellion (1857), the Mughal Empire and the states that rose from its ashes declined in wea...

A golden chain of civilizations: Indic, Semitic and Hellenic upto c. 600

ISBN: 9788187586289, 8187586281

The political economy of Indigo in India, 1580-1930: a global perspective

Nadri, Ghulam A.

ISBN: 9789360806354, 9360806358

The author explores in this book the dynamics of the indigo industry and trade from a long-term perspective and examines the local and global forces that affected the potentialities of production in India.