Indian Economy Since Independence: A Comprehensive and Critical Analysis of India’s Economy, 1947-2022 (33rd Edition)

Contents: Preface. Part I: Planning, Institutional Framework, Constraints and Role of the State. 1. Indian Economy at Independence: Planning, Market and the State/Uma Kapila. 2. India’s Economic Reforms: Reflections on the Unfinished Agenda/Vijay Joshi. 3. Fiscal and Budgetary Developments: Prospects and Reforms/Editorial Notes. 4. Fiscal Policy and Growth in a Post-COVID-19 World/Sajjid Chinoy and Toshi Jain. 5. Evolving Contours of Monetary Policy/C. Rangarajan. 6. Demography and Development/Editorial Notes. 7. India’s Demographic Transition and its Consequences for Development/Tim Dyson. Part II: Growth and Structural Change since 1950. 8. Growth and Structural Change Since 1950/Editorial Notes. 9. The Recovery of India: Economic Growth in the Nehru Era/Pulapre Balakrishnan. 10. Pressing the Indian Growth Accelerator: Policy Imperative/Rakesh Mohan and Muneesh Kapur. 11. The Intriguing Picture of Investment/C. Rangarajan. 12. India on the Growth Turnpike: No State Left Behind/Arvind Panagariya. 13. India’s Growth Prospects and Policy Options: Emerging from the Pandemic’s Shadow/C. Rangarajan and D.K. Srivastava Part III: Distributional Issues: Poverty, Inequality, Malnutrition and Unemployment. 14. Assessment of the Growth Experience: Poverty, Inequality and Unemployment/Editorial Notes. 15. Report of the Expert Group to Review the Methodology for Measurement of Poverty: Executive Summary/Rangarajan Committee Report. 16. Counting the Poor: Measurement and Other Issues/C. Rangarajan and S. Mahendra Dev. 17. Inequities in Access to Health Services in India: Caste, Class and Region/Rama Baru, Arnab Acharya, Sanghmitra Acharya, A.K. Shiva Kumar and K. Nagaraj. 18. Labour and Employment in Fast Growing India: Issues of Employment and Inclusiveness/T.S. Papola and Alakh N. Sharma. Part IV: Agriculture. 19. Indian Agriculture: Developments, Issues, Policies and Agenda for Reforms/Editorial Notes. 20. Economic Reforms and Indian Agriculture/Ashok Gulati and Shweta Saini. 21. The Agricultural Market Reforms: Is there a Trade-off Between Efficiency and Equality?/Sarthi Acharya and Santosh Mehrotra Part V: Industry, Services and Infrastructure. 22. Industrial Development and Policies since Independence/Editorial Notes. 23. Reviving Manufacturing and Employment/R. Nagaraj. 24. Economic Growth without Employment: The Story of Indian Manufacturing/Jayan Jose Thomas. 25. On Strategies for Disinvestment and Privatisation/Vijay Kelkar. 26. Of Omissions and Commissions: India’s Competition Laws/Aditya Bhattacharjea. 27. India’s Services Sector: Trends, Opportunities and Challengess/Rupa Chanda 28. Infrastructure and Economic Development/Editorial Notes. 29. Indian Financial Sector: Structure, Trends and Turns/Rakesh Mohan and Partha Ray. 30. Seven Ages of India’s Monetary Policy/Shaktikanta Das. Part VI: The External Sector. 31. India’s External Sector: Policies, Developments and Issues/Editorial Notes. 32. India’s New Foreign Trade Policy: Pluses and Minuses/Biswajit Dhar. 33. Foreign Direct and Portfolio Investments Flows and Development: A Perspective on Indian Experience/Nagesh Kumar. 34. India and the WTO/Editorial Notes. Part VII. 35. Indian Economy Today: An Overview and Comparative Perspective/Uma Kapila.…