2018 · Q93
The Economic historian, who has used the data collected by Buchanan-Hamilton to support the thesis of deindustrialization in the 19th century India, is
General KnowledgeHistory of India
- ATirthankar Roy
- BAmiya Kumar Bagchi
- CSabyasachi Bhattacharya
- DIrfan Habib
Explanation
Amiya Kumar Bagchi's influential work on deindustrialisation in colonial India drew heavily on the statistical surveys of Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, who documented the decline of Indian manufactures in the early 19th century. The writings of Clive, Hastings and Cornwallis are administrative or political records, not the data source Bagchi used. Hence Buchanan-Hamilton is the answer.