It has pursued what the authors call a “precocious” model of development, doing things in a peculiar order. Its democracy ...

What makes the growth and structural transformation history of India particularly interesting is the fact of a major turnaround in economic growth that also allowed some of the stymied structural ...

There is a heart-warming story about Nunaram Hansda in Subroto Bagchi’s book The Day the Chariot Moved: How India Grows at the Grassroots (Penguin Business). Born to tribal parents in the interior ...

The macroeconomic projections of the IMF, World Bank, and Forbes asses that India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world and that she will become the third largest economy of the world ...

The ‘what ifs’ of Indian development are many and varied. Embarking on a kind of time travel, some observers will point out that India had a per capita income comparable to Korea’s, say, some six ...