Adoption of NEP in 1990-91 was designed primarily to replace slowly growing closed Indian economy by rapidly growing … open economy. The study determines the degree of openness of Indian economy and the profile of time path traversed towards … this goal under NEP. The opening up of the closed economy is expected to have resulted in changes in magnitude, direction …

East India Company in 1757. Even after partition, in 1947, till the early 1950s, West Bengal's industrial contribution was … highest among all the states of India. Then the decline started. Few possible causes of the decline, both non-economic and …) Bengal centric parochial politics; (iv) the Union government's discriminatory policies against Bengal.Post colonial India has …

-century India and Africa. Colonial institutions-the law, western style property rights, newspapers and statistical analysis … sociology" of India as a prelude to development. Indigenous ideologies and practices were as significant in this slow …

claim there were long-lasting effects of the institutions established in British India on a variety of development outcomes … development in India rests on fragile historical and statistical foundations …

We analyze the relationship between pre-colonial warfare and long-run development patterns in India. We construct a new … and local economic development across India today. This result is robust to numerous checks, including controls for …

-century India and Africa. Colonial institutions - the law, western style property rights, newspapers and statistical analysis … benign sociology of India as a prelude to development. Indigenous ideologies and practices were as significant in this slow …