Indian foreign trade 1900-1931 and its economic background

Abstract

An attempt has been made here, to study the Foreign Trade of India during the period 1900-1931. The Foreign Trade of a country is the sale and purchase of goods, by individuals in a country to and from those outside it. Particularly in the period following the Depression from 1929 onwards quotas, prohibitions, and state- trading have become prominent and narrowed the liberty of the individual in the matter of Foreign Trade in certain parts of the world. Signs, of the coming of these, were not wanting in the Postwar period that comes within the scope of this study but they did not get set in any serious measure to call for a modification of the definition of Foreign Trade as the trade between individuals in one country with those of the rest of the world.