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Saumitra Jha
Saumitra Jha is Associate Professor of Political Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. His research focusses upon understanding the effectiveness of organisations and innovations that societies have developed to address the problems of violence and political risk in the past and to develop new lessons for contemporary policy.
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Drawing the line: The short- and long-term consequences of partitioning India
Colonial rule in India culminated in the birth of two nations, forcing the displacement of millions. This column analyses the economic and political consequences of the Partition in 1947. It finds that differences in the distribution of education and organisational skills across communities and the extent to which communities and regions traded with each other, played a key role in shaping the bloody nature of the upheaval during the Partition itself, and its long-term consequences.
