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The Indian Village in Transition
The Indian Village
Indian economy in the pre-British days was characterized by isolated and self-sufficient economic units. India at the beginning of the 18th century was, as it is even today, a land of villages and its occupation was predominantly agricultural. There was nothing peculiar in this kind of rural economy, as it was the case even with the Western countries before the advent of Industrial and Commercial Revolutions. The compact village, the scattered holdings and the communal routine of the open fields, dominated the rural life of India as they did of medieval Europe. Unlike in Europe, where the villagers were denied many a freedom, their counterparts in India enjoyed their freedom in the common ...
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