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Raman Mahadevan is a senior economic and business historian. His scholarly contribution lies in the broad area of industrial and capitalist development in colonial South India. He has co-edited Shaping India: Economic Change in Historical Perspective (2011) and South India Economy: Agrarian Change, Industrial structure and State Politics 1914–1947 (1991). Now an independent scholar, he is based in Bangalore.