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The Licence Raj remembers India's tryst with socialism in the years after independence from colonial rule. The dream of a resurgent Indian economy was, even by 1947, an old one. Students of Elphinstone College, Bombay had written the first economic critiques of the British Raj a century earlier. A professor of mathematics and merchant, Dadabhai Naoroji then told the world of the drain of India's wealth under British rule. The jurist Mahadev Ranade wanted to create a uniquely Indian approach to the study of political economy. The civil servant Romesh Dutt was a patron of the swadeshi movement which worked to rebuild Indian enterprise by making things in India once again. After the First World War Mohandas Gandhi sought to revive long forgotten village industries. And on the eve of the Second World War a young Jayaprakash Narayan wrote an earnest book in which he tried to convince his fellow Congressmen of the merits of socialism. Jawaharlal Nehru was also a socialist and when he became prime minister set about remaking India according to a "socialistic pattern of society". He was assisted by an old acquaintance from Calcutta, the physicist turned statistician Prasanta Mahalanobis. They would soon have some unexpected advisors however. Just as the British were departing, the Americans arrived.
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Maini, Amar
- ISBN: 9780646817897
- Condition: New
- Dimensions: 9.02 x 1.43
- Number Of Pages: 646
- Publication Year: 2020
Language:
English