This book deals with the history of private investment in India and its determinants during the period 1900 1939.

List of tables; Preface; Abbreviations; Part I. General - Theoretical Framework: 1. Introduction; Appendix to chapter 1; 2. The economic policy of the Government of India; 3. The record of aggregate private industrial investment in India, 1900-1939; 4. Land and the supply of raw materials; Appendix to chapter 4; 5. The supply of unskilled labour; 6. The supply of capital and entrepreneurship; Part II. Studies of Major Industries: 7. The development of the cotton-mill industry; 8. Private investment in the jute industry; 9. The growth of the iron and steel industry; 10. The growth of private engineering firms; 11. The cement industry; 12. The growth of the sugar industry; 13. The development of the Indian paper industry; 14. British imperial policy and the spread of modern industry in India; Bibliography; Index.