The article analyses the evolution of Indian real wages for the period 1500–1650. It argues that the Great Divergence between India and north-western Europe was already visible by the early 1500s by making use of a new dataset of 2,710 separate observations, reflecting over 76,000 paid-out wages, for nine locations in Western India. These wages were deflated by rice prices and a basket of goods and imply low and declining standards of living over the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In comparison with Europe, these real wages represent comparatively low living standards, and they were not much above those in Japan.

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达伽马之后：印度西部的实际工资，c。1500–c。1650

本文分析了 1500 年至 1650 年期间印度实际工资的演变。它认为，通过使用包含 2,710 个独立观测数据的新数据集，印度和西北欧之间的大分歧在 1500 年代初期就已经可见，这些数据反映了印度西部 9 个地点超过 76,000 笔已支付的工资。这些工资因大米价格和一揽子商品的价格而下降，这意味着十六世纪和十七世纪初生活水平较低且不断下降。与欧洲相比，这些实际工资代表着较低的生活水平，与日本相比也高不了多少。