Economic Policy in Independent India provides an immersive, accessible yet rigorous understanding of the Indian economy through a political economy analysis of economic policies. It provides a birds-eye view of the politics, context, and ideas that shaped major economic policies in independent India and argues that they are the product of crisis, coalitions, and contingency - not necessarily choice. Each chapter focuses on specific political regimes: Colonial Rule, Jawahar Lal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, liberalisation under coalition governments, the UPA Government, and the NDA Government. The...
Economic Policy in Independent India provides an immersive, accessible yet rigorous understanding of the Indian economy through a political economy an...
An immersive, accessible yet rigourous book that provides an understanding of the Indian economy through a political economy analysis of economic policies. The book evaluates how well different governments from pre-colonial to contemporary times executed their policies.
An immersive, accessible yet rigourous book that provides an understanding of the Indian economy through a political economy analysis of economic poli...