Globalization and Nationalism : The Changing Balance in India's Economic Policy, 1950-2000

by Baldev Raj Nayar

• ISBN13: 9780761995364
• ISBN10: 0761995366
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd

Summary

This book provides a new approach to the understanding of economic policy reform by placing it in the context of the perennial conflict between the two historical social forces of economic globalization and economic nationalism and examines successive attempts over the last half century to change the roles of state and market in the management of the Indian economy.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	8	(2)
Preface	10	(3)
Globalization, Nationalism and Economic Reform: The Fundamental Issues	13	(37)
Planning for Autarky and State Hagemony: Nationalist Development Strategy under Nehru	50	(36)
Between Mercantilist Socialism and Liberalism: The Changing Fortunes of the Nehru-Mahalanobis Strategy, 1956-90	86	(43)
Changing the Balance, 1991-96: Political Structure and Economic Reforms	129	(27)
Business and Economic Reforms	156	(30)
The United Front and Economic Reforms, 1996-98: Policy and Performance under Democratic Coalitions	186	(37)
The Limits of Economic Nationalism: Economic Reforms under the BJP-led Government, 1998-99	223	(36)
Summary and Conclusions	259	(7)
Bibliography	266	(10)
Index	276	(11)
About the Author	287