Acknowledgements, Introduction: the political economy of India’s development, Part 1 Thinking about development, 1. The bean in our eyes, 2. India in comparative perspective, 3. Unto this last: Sarvodaya—non-violent social transformation, 4. The National Planning Committee and the Congress and industry: big industry versus cottage industry, 5. India in the modern world, 6. Socialist strategy of development, 7. Self-reliance and the perspective for development, 8. Evidence before the Southborough Committee: 27 January 1919, 9. Development economics and the Indian experience, 10. The debate on Gandhian ideas, 11. Nationalist planning for autarky and state hegemony: development strategy under Nehru, Part II Understanding India’s development, 12. Market failure and government failure, 13. The state and the market, 14. Development economics as a paradigm, 15. Natura facit saltum: analysis of the disequilibrium growth process, 16. Economic reforms and poverty alleviation, 17. Predatory growth, 18. Some implications of contemporary globalisation, 19. A framework of planning for India, 20. Investment, income and the multiplier in an underdeveloped economy, 21. Labor union resistance to economic liberalization in India: what can national and state level patterns of protests against privatization tell us?, 22. Labour and economic reforms: disjointed critiques, 23. Politics of exclusion
Biography
Pulin B. Nayak is presently at the Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics. He was formerly Professor of Economics and Director of the Delhi School of Economics. He has written on issues pertaining to public finance and economic development.
