Changing India - Hardcover

Singh, Manmohan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199483566 ISBN 13: 9780199483563

Publisher: OUP India, 2019

Synopsis

Contents: Vol. I: India's Export Trends and the Prospects for Self-Sustained Growth. Vol. II: Early Thoughts on Trade and Development. Vol. III: The International Economic Order and the Quest for Equity in Development. Vol. IV: Economic Reforms : 1991 and Beyond. Vol. V: The Prime Minister speaks (Parts 1 and 2) Manmohan Singh is globally renowned as the economist who played a key role in ushering in India's economic liberalization and as the statesman who was Prime Minister of India for ten years. This eminent policymaker, however, remains at heart a thinker and a scholar. Changing India, a set of five volumes, is the definitive expression of Singh's perspectives on a wide range of economic, social, and political issues as they evolved over his long and eventful career. It covers a broad span of time, from his days in academia during the 1950s to 2014 when he completed two consecutive terms as Prime Minister. Including select writings, speeches, interviews, and press conferences, the volumes reflect his views on various themes, including trade and development, economic reforms, the quest for social equity, and India's place in the world. Not only do they offer an insight into the mind of this important figure in India's political and economic history, they help us understand the unfolding of that history itself. (jacket)

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Product Description

This set of five volumes documents the life and work of Manmohan Singh, an academic, a policymaker, and a politician who has had a deep impact on India and its economy. The volumes offer his selected speeches, articles, and interviews, starting from the 1950s, when he was in the academia, through the 1980s and 1990s, when he was India's finance minister, to 2004-14, when he was the prime minister of India. Manmohan Singh's writings reflect on the reforms that transformed the Indian economy and lay the foundations for a stronger medium-term growth story than the kind that India had witnessed in the preceding 44 years since Independence. The five volumes bring together Singh's essays and speeches on various subjects- economic reforms, India's export trends and the prospects for self-sustained growth, trade and development, and international economic order and equity in development.

Review

This will be an important collection of the works of a scholar, bureaucrat and politician who has had made an indelible mark on the Indian economy and its foreign policy: as the finance minister in the Narasimha Rao government to allow India to escape from its Hindu rate of growth, and later as the Prime Minister in charting a de facto alliance with the US to escape the cul de sac of the policy of non-alignment"

These Books will constitute a major publication for the somewhat rare reason of being Books that combine scholarship with practical policy concern at a level and fineness seldom seen. The author is special because he ranged over the academic world. In any case this will be a publication worth waiting for."

14/01/2019

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP India
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0199483566
• ISBN 13: 9780199483563
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 3224