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Nikhil Menon on Planning Democracy
Ideas of India
English - February 02, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 80.5 MBSocial Sciences Science Society & Culture development india publicpolicy economics Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode, Shruti speaks with Nikhil Menon about the history of Indian socialism and central planning, government-artist relationships, economists who dissented from the central-planning orthodoxy, the legacy of P.C. Mahalanobis and much more. Menon is a historian of modern South Asia, specializing in the political and economic history of 20th-century India. His research explores the histories of democracy and development in independent India. His book, “Planning Democracy: Modern India’s Quest for Development,” tells the story of how India wedded western-style democracy and Soviet-inspired economic planning in the middle of the 20th century.
Recorded November 22nd, 2022
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