num_pages: 377
description: Argues that Bengal's prosperity which was so marked during the first half of the 18th century came to an end gradually after Plassey and in the second half of the century there followed an economic impoverishment of Bengal under the English East India Company and its servants. Arguments supported by both quantitative and qualitative evidence.
language: None
title: From Prosperity to Decline: 18th Century Bengal
publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors