TY  - BOOK
AU  - Menon,Nikhil
TI  - Planning democracy: How a professor, an institute and an idea shaped India
SN  - 9780670095926
AV  - JQ229.P64 M46 2022
U1  - 320.60954 23/eng/20211202
PY  - 2022///
CY  - India
PB  - Penguin Random House
KW  - Political planning
KW  - India
KW  - Democratization
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - India’s Five-Year Plans were one of the developing world’s most ambitious experiments. After nearly two centuries of colonial rule, planning the economy 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 compelling history, Nikhil Menon brings the world of planning to life through the intriguing story of a gifted scientist known as the Professor, a trail-blazing research institute in Calcutta, and the alluring idea of ‘democratic planning’. Set amidst 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 nation and revealing the ways in which it continues to shape our world today

ER  -