Cotton cultivation under colonial rule in India in the nineteenth century from a comparative perspective

India has played an important role in recent debates on the development of agriculture during colonial rule, and performance US cotton plantations nineteenth century. The suffer from a lack quantitative evidence productivity Indian cultivation. In this article, we examine levels land labour cultivation nineteenth-century India, compare data with corresponding figures US. Average yields were much lower than previous research would suggest, trends generally stagnant or even negative. difference between cost was also suggest.