Historical prices and everyday life in India

Price and everyday-life pages help explain how ordinary life changed across India — food, travel, cinema, fuel and household routines.

• 15 August 1947

  The first years of independence and everyday life

• 26 January 1950

  Republic-era routines and early national institutions

• 25 June 1983

  Cricket, cinema and the mood of everyday consumption

• 21 July 1991

  The years of change in prices, mobility and households