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1 online resource (xvii, 333 pages) |
Contents |
Cover -- Advance Praise -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- 1: Planning for a 21st Century India -- Planning, Development, Growth, and Democracy -- Planning -- Planning in a Comparative Perspective -- How to Plan in a Market-driven Economy? -- Development and Growth -- Democracy -- The Role of the Elite in Planning -- Organization of the Book and Chapters -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Origins: Ideas and Ideology -- 2: From Economists to Historians -- Studying the Planning Commission, 1950-2014 -- Introduction -- I |
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The PC as an Institution -- II -- Studying the PC Over the Decades -- 1950 to 1965: Questioning Techniques -- 1960s and 1970s: Questioning Processes, Actors, and Interests -- 1980s: Questioning the State and Planning -- 1990s: Questioning the Institution, Its Adaptability -- 2000s: Re-questioning the Beginnings -- Conclusion: Recurring Criticisms and Similar Objectives -- Notes -- References -- 3: The Long Road to Indian Economic Planning (until 1950) -- Introduction -- Views on State-led Industrialization (1860-1930) -- Indian Congress Party's Views on State and Industrialization |
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Pre-independence Political Economists' Views on State-led Industrialization -- The British Government's Response to Demands for Indian Industrialization -- Views on Industrialization through State-led Planning (1920-1950) -- Nehru and the National Planning Committee -- India's Industrial Class and Its Support for Planning -- Gandhi's and Patel's Challenge to Planning -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: Ideas and Origins of the Planning Commission in India -- Introduction -- Laissez-faire Abandoned -- Soviet Socialism -- Fascism/Nazism -- American Institutionalism and Progressivism |
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Fabian Socialism -- The Apparatus of Planning -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Changes and Continuity: Development and Adaptation of Planning and the Planning Commission -- 5: The Planning Commission and Education -- Phase I (1951-Mid-1960s) -- Phase II (Mid-1960s-Mid-1980s) -- Phase III (Mid-1980s-2016/17) -- Notes -- References -- 6: Addressing Agrarian Distress -- Sops versus Development -- Genesis and Symptoms -- Disparities in Agricultural and Non-agricultural Incomes -- Phases in Agriculture Growth and Role of Planning Institutions -- Reforms and Sectoral Growth |
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Indicators of Agrarian Distress -- Distress at Household Level -- Strategy -- Raising Farm Income -- Sops versus Development -- Recent Government Initiatives -- Doubling Farm Income to Address Agrarian Distress -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 7: Economic Planning after Economic Liberalization -- Between Planning Commission and Think Tank NITI, 1991-2015 -- The Impact of Economic Liberalization on Economic Planning -- From Comprehensive Planning to Indicative Planning -- From Planning for State Hegemony to Adapting to Private Sector Expansion |
Summary |
The Planning Commission played a crucial role in the type of development that India followed after independence. However, even though most economic analyses of India mention the five-year plans, the Planning Commission as an institution remains little studied. This is why this book proposes to look backward, examining the history of the idea of planning and the history and experience of planning in India. It also looks forward, trying to evaluate, beyond ideologies, which role the practice of planning has and should have in contemporary India. It then proposes that the NITI Aayog, the think tank founded on 1st January 2015 after the demise of the Planning Commission, could learn from this experience. This book addresses three leading questions: why plan economic development? How to plan? And what exactly can/should be planned? These questions are interrelated and the contributors of this volume, each with their own focus, propose elements of replies |
Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 14, 2020) |
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India. Planning Commission.
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SUBJECT |
India. Planning Commission fast |
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Economic development -- India
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Economic development
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Economic policy
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India -- Economic policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064896
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India
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Electronic book
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Author |
Mehrotra, Santosh K., editor.
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Guichard, Sylvie, editor.
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ISBN |
9781108859448 |
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1108859445 |
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