Latika Chaudhary is Associate Professor of Economics at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. Her recent publications include 'Railways, Development and Literacy in India' in the Journal of Economic History (2023) and 'The Growth Contribution of Colonial Indian Railways in Comparative Perspective' in Economic History Review (2024). Tirthankar Roy is Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics. His publications include Water and Development: The Troubled Economic History of the Arid Tropics and Land or Sea? How Geography Shaped the Emergence of Colonialism. Anand V. Swamy is Class of 1924 Professor of Economics, Williams College. He is a co-author of Law and the Economy in Colonial India (2016), and Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy (2022).