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"Set against the larger canvas of historic interaction between economic globalization and economic nationalism, this study is a systemic examination of the successive attempts from 1950 to 2000 to change the roles of the state and the market in the management of the Indian economy. Drawing on insights from the fields of international relations and comparative politics, the author provides a new interpretation of the motives for economic policy reform...

"After nearly five decades of insulation from world markets, state controls, and slow growth, India embarked in 1991 on a process of liberalization of controls and progressive integration with the global economy in an effort to put its economy on a path of rapid and sustained growth. Despite major changes in the government since then, the thrust on reforms has been maintained. According to the World Bank, only 10 out of 145 countries had more rapid...