01509nam a22001937a 4500 20260704120841.0 9781009521659 eng 23 330.954 ROY/K ROY,THIORTHANKAR AND RAVI RAMAN,K 17518 KERALA 1956 TO THE PRESENT : INDIAS MIRACLE STATE / BY TIRTHANKAR ROY AND K RAVI RAMAN UK : CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS , 2024 . 170p.; Kerala is different, but not in the way we think.' Economic change in this southern state has fascinated economists. Most studies focused on the state's unusual human development, asked how a poor and economically stagnant state could achieve high levels of education and healthcare and pointed to politics and government policy to answer the question. Little of that scholarship took history seriously. History, this book says, shows that the foundations of human development were laid before the formation of the state and were owed to many factors besides politics. The striking thing about the state is its unusual income growth, which has been faster than most states since the 1990s. The question the authors ask is, 'How could an income-poor state break out of stagnation so dramatically?' The answers consider past globalisation, labour mobility, a legacy of welfare spending, and the positive ways these features interacted since India's economic reforms. IN ENGLISH ECONOMIC HISTORY RAVI RAMAN,K ddc BV 761296 761296 0 0 ddc TEXT 0 0 ARA ARA GEN 2026-07-04 0 330.954 ROY/K ARA11656 2026-07-04 11:59:56 2026-07-04 BK