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Making India Great Again: Learning from our History book cover

1st Edition

Making India Great Again Learning from our History

By Meeta Rajivlochan, M. Rajivlochan Copyright 2021
300 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

300 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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How can India become a great country once again, is the question explored in this book. In the past, India had significant achievements in science, technology, mathematics and business. A failure to build robust institutional networks of information and trust and indifference of the state to business communities, brought all that crashing down within a generation. Many of these historical patterns... Read more
Introduction: What Prevents India from Becoming Rich Again  1. India: Rich in Resources  2. Information and Productivity: The Missing Link  3. Bankers Extraordinaire: The House of Jagat Seth  4. The Unsung Artisan  5. The Land of the Lotus Eaters  6. Improving the Learning Curve  7. The Way Forward

Biography

Meeta Rajivlochan has held the charge of Additional Director General of Foreign Trade, Department of Commerce, Government of India. She was also Secretary in the Department of Public Health and Department of Finance in Maharashtra. She facilitated the development of clinical guidelines for diagnosis that helped create a learning-based patient-centric model of health care that was adopted for the state health insurance scheme. Currently she is the Member Secretary in the National Commission for Women. She has written extensively on issues of public policy.
M. Rajivlochan is at the Department of History, Panjab University. His latest, with Meeta and Gurinder Kairon, is a biography of Sardar Partap Singh Kairon. He has authored books on agrarian distress, on Jal Swaraj and, on the social history of Chandigarh. He is on the Senate of the Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh and is a Member of the State Higher Education Council, Chandigarh.

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