PLANNING DEMOCRACY: HOW A PROFESSOR, AN INSTITUTE, AND AN IDEA SHAPED INDIA

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  • Pub Date : March 2022
  • Author : Nikhil Menon
  • Publisher : Viking
  • Language : English
  • Binding Type : Hardback
  • Category : Economic History, India, Economic
  • Political Structure & Processes,/Historical, Political & Military
  • ISBN : 9780670095926
  • MRP : 799

ABOUT THE BOOK

India's Five Year Plans were one of the developing world's most
ambitious experiments. After nearly two centuries of colonial rule,
planning was meant to be independent India's route from poverty to
prosperity. Planning Democracy explores how India married liberal
democracy to a socialist economy. Planning not only built India's data
systems, it even shaped the nature of its democracy. The Five Year Plans
loomed so large that they linked surprisingly far-flung contexts-from
computers to Bollywood to Hindutva. In this engaging and original
account, Nikhil Menon writes the history of planning through the story of
a scientist known as the Professor, an academic institute in Calcutta, and
the idea of 'democratic planning'. Situating India within global conflicts
and international debates, Menon reveals how India walked a tightrope
between capitalism and communism. Planning Democracy recasts our
understanding of the Indian republic, uncovering how planning came to
define the country and revealing the ways in which it continues to shape
our world today.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nikhil Menon is assistant professor of history at the University of Notre
Dame. He grew up in Chennai and studied at Delhi University as well as
Jawaharlal Nehru University. His PhD in history is from Princeton
University. He lives in South Bend, Indiana.

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