Tirthankar Roy

Professor in Economic History, London School of Economics, UK

Tirthankar Roy is professor in economic history at the London School of Economics. His books include the co-authored Law and the Economy in Colonial India (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 2022).

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Written by Tirthankar Roy

A busy urban street with cars, a motorbike and a truck passing by a neon-lit building at sunset.

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Poverty and development

How Kerala got rich

Fifty years ago it was one of India’s poorest states, now it is now one of the richest. How did Kerala do it?

Tirthankar Roy & K Ravi Raman