Cities of Princes and Merchants: Political Control, Markets and Growth in South Asia from 1600 to 1900

• In Event: Long-Run Political Consequences

Brief Overview

The paper examines the political and economic origins of urban growth in a historically highly urbanized region---South Asia---with a new dataset of 202 South Asia cities and their characteristics between 1600-1900.

Author

• Aliz Barbara Toth, Stanford University