Bishnupriya Gupta
CV
Contact details
Telephone: +44 (0)24 765 23034
Office: S1.118
Email: B dot Gupta at warwick dot ac dot uk
New!
, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, February 2025.
Edited Book:
(Jointly with Latika Chaudhary, Tirthankar Roy and Anand Swamy), Routledge, 2015
CAGE- Discover Economics Schools Project
Why isn't the whole world developed?
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
鈥淢issing Women in Colonial India鈥�, with James Fenske and Cora Neumann, Economic History Review, Accepted 2024.
Community Origins of Industrial Entrepreneurship in Colonial India (With Dilip Mookherjee, Kaivan Munshi and Mario Sanclemente, Journal of Development of Economics, 2022,
Demographic Shocks and Women's Labour Market Participation: Evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in India (With James Fenske and Song Yuan) , Journal of Economic History, 2022.
Falling Behind and Catching Up: India鈥檚 Transition from a Colonial Economy鈥�, Economic History Review, 2019.
Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1870" (2018) with Jean-Pascal Bassino, Stephen Broadberry, Kyoji Fukao, and Masanori Takashima, Explorations in Economic History, 2019. (Larry Neal prize for the best paper in 2019)
Reputational Consequences of Labour Coercion: Evidence from Assam's Tea Plantations (with Anand Swamy) Journal of Development Economics, 2017
India and the Great Divergence: An Anglo-Indian Comparison of GDP per capita, 1600-1871 (with Stephen Broadberry and Johann Custodis), Explorations in Economic History, 2015.
Discrimination or Social Networks? Industrial Investment in Colonial India, Journal of Economic History, March 2014.
Where have All the Brides Gone? Sex Ratio and Marriage in India, Economic History Review, February 2014.
Wages, Unions and Labour Productivity: Evidence from Indian Cotton Mills, Economic History Review, February 2011
Book Chapters
"Women in a nervous breakdown: Intra household bargaining and gender norms in South Korea" in Bourguignon, Dixit, Leruth and Platteau (eds), Economics and Literature: A novel Approach, Forthcoming 2025.
"Community Networks in Trade and Industry in South and Southeast Asia" in Diebolt, C., Haupert, M. (eds) Handbook of Cliometrics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. 2024.
鈥淔rom free Trade to Regulation: The Political Economy of India鈥檚 Development鈥� in Broadberry, S. and K. Fukao (ed), The Cambridge Economic History of the Modern World, Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming 2020
鈥淪outh Asia in the World Economy: 1600- 1950鈥� in G. Riello and T. Roy (ed) Global Economic History, Bloomsbury, 2018.
鈥淔rom Artisanal Production to Machine tools: Industrialization in India over the long run鈥�, with Tirthankar Roy in K. O鈥橰ourke and J. Williamson (ed), Industrial Growth in the Global Periphery since 1870, Oxford University Press, 2017
鈥淪tates and Development: Early Modern India, China and Great Divergence鈥� (with Debin Ma a nd Tirthankar Roy) in Eloranta, J., Golson, E., Markewich, A and N. Wolf, (eds) Economic History of Warfare and State Formation, Springer 2016.
Working Papers and Work in Progress:
Conflict and Gender Norms: Evidence from India, with Mark Dincecco, James Fenske and Anil Menon
Teaching
- EC9C1: Topics in Economic History