Conventional economic history has taken something of a backseat in history programmes worldwide and India is no exception. Something like an involuntary shudder passes through the graduate student faced with a table or a graph of wages, prices, national income indexes or five-year moving averages of population increases; the impulse is to quickly turn the page. Accompanied also by a discernible shift, and narrowing interest, in questions of labour and class consciousness, whether in the political or academic domain, many earlier concerns associated with production processes have had to take refuge in the broader remit of social and cultural history.

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埃里卡·拉帕波特（Erika Rappaport），《渴求帝国》：茶如何塑造了现代世界

常规的经济历史在世界范围的历史计划中都处于倒退的地位，印度也不例外。诸如非自愿的颤抖之类的东西穿过研究生，面临着工资，价格，国民收入指数或人口增长的五年移动平均值的表格或图表；冲动是快速翻页。在劳动和阶级意识的问题上，无论是在政治领域还是在学术领域，伴随着明显的转移和兴趣的缩小，许多与生产过程有关的较早的关注都不得不在更广泛的社会和文化历史上避开。