This new title in the World Economies series charts and explains the development of the Indian economy since independence and partition and provides a unique up-to-date overview of the contemporary Indian economy and the reasons it has assumed its current form.
1. Introducing the Indian economy: culture, geography and colonialism
2. The Indian economic story since 1947: growth and stagnation
3. Measuring the Indian economy
4. The form of the Indian economy
5. Human factors in the Indian economy
6. Making the Indian economy unique
Conclusion: prospects for the Indian economy