Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

P. C. Mahalanobis , D. Bhattacharya

Abstract

Undivided India in 1941 had an area of 1,582,989 square miles. The share of India and Pakistan together in 1941 was 3.03 per cent of the area and 17.30 per cent of the population of the world, and 15.9 per cent of the area and 32.10 per cent of the population of Asia. The share of area remained much the same, but the share of population had decreased slightly to 16.92 per cent of the world, and 31.14 per cent of Asia in 1961.

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D. Bhattacharya

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The purpose of this paper is to show the trend of money-wages and real-wages in India during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The bulk of the data used here are those obtained in the official series of prices and wages in India issued from 186l. Wage rates for three undermentioned categories of workers are available systematically from 1873 onward.

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