A Comprehensive History of Business in India
From 3000 BC to AD 2000
P N Agarwala
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Tata Mc-Graw Hill
722 pages/Rs 575
P N Agarwala has had the guts to tackle 5,000 years of business history in one 700-page volume. The vast scope of the subject, and the limited space available, necessarily limit the depth to which the author has been able to plumb his subject. But the book provides a sweeping overview of economic history, and while it may not satiate the reader