In order to determine the level of economic development, it is important to know the actual level and trends in real wages. A lack of data related to this was found in the British period. Radhakamal Mukherjee collected all kinds of historical data available to him, for the United Provinces, (present Uttar Pradesh), and prepared the real wages index for the period between 1600 and 1938. It can be said on the basis of these indicators that in comparison to 1807, the wages of both skilled and non skilled workers were less in 1938. However, the condition between 1916 and 1928 was so bad that the wages of workers in these categories were less than half of that in 1807.
