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The Nehru Development Model: History and its lasting impact

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The Nehru Development Model: History and its lasting impact


The Nehru Development Model: History and its lasting impact


Author: Arvind Panagariya


Publisher: Penguin Viking, 2024


Pages: 345


Price: Rs 856


This magisterial review of modern India’s economic history by a celebrated international trade economist, earlier chair of the NITI Aayog and currently the chair of India’s 16th Finance Commission was written during the pensive days of Covid-19 and is dedicated to the author’s brother — an eminent Indian neurologist — who sadly passed on then. It is refreshingly free of dry technicalities. Instead, a lively, albeit heavily annotated, style, transports readers into the minds of politicians, business leaders and intellectuals, reading in

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