This major research study launched by the Lahore School of Economics in 2016, coordinated by GIDS and conducted together with Economics Faculty, is visualized as a long-term research project which will build-up a body of knowledge and analysis into the last five hundred years of Pakistan’s economic history starting from the eve of the Mughal Period to the creation of Pakistan and its over seventy years history. An important part of the project is to build-up a knowledge and data base by collecting historical publications (or their re-prints) covering this overall period as well as build-up a statistical data base on key economic indications (population, GDP, agriculture, industry, services, human development indicators, trade).
Economic History Society has also been revived as a part of the project. The first meeting of the Economic History Society was held on 12th January, 2019. Two working papers, “The Economics History of Pakistan since Mughals, 1520-2020: An Outline” by Dr. Rashid Amjad and “British Administration in Agrarian Punjab: order versus transformation (1849-1906)” by Maham Hameed have been published in 2019.
The outputs of this project will include books, monographs and working papers to be published by the Lahore School of Economics:
Main Researchers: Dr. Rashid Amjad (Co-ordinator), Dr. Naved Hamid, Dr. Azam Chaudhry, Dr. Fareeha Zafar, Dr. Shahnaz Rouse (Visiting Faculty), Dr. Khalil Hamdani (Visiting Faculty), Dr. Zafar Shaheed (Visiting Faculty).
Assisted by: Ms. Maham Hameed.
