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by Rakesh Mohan


  massification, 370–72

  misgovernance in medical education, 376

  political economy of, 370, 377–78

  publications, 376–77

  reforms, 378–81

  technical education, 515–16

  Himachal Futuristic Communications Ltd, 332

  Himalaya, 589

  Hindustan Cables, 475

  Hindustan Construction Company, 351

  Hindustan Fertilizers Corporation Limited, 475

  Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL), 575, 576–77

  before liberalization, 590

  the early years of liberalization, 577–79

  the later years of liberalization, 583–84, 589

  Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), 316, 317, 318, 319, 474

  Hindustan Photo Films, 475

  Hizb-e-Islami, 170

  Honda, 586

  Hong Kong, 192

  household consumption expenditure, 561

  household investments in stocks and debentures compared to other investments, 439

  housing and urban development, 7–9

  housing finance in India, 447, 454

  Hugo, Victor, 5, 76, 312

  human development, 38, 39, 89, 205, 563

  Hussain, Abid, 9, 10, 16, 32–33

  Hyderabad Bio-cluster, 603–04

  IBM, 572, 612, 613

  ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries), 600

  ICICI (Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India), 447, 596, 603

  ICICI Bank, 465

  ICICI Ventures, 596

  ICL, 612

  IDBI (Industrial Development Bank of India), 421

  identity politics, 87

  IFCI, 420

  import, 111

  controls and restrictions, 21, 49, 50

  duties, 76, 120

  ratio to GDP, 147

  liberalization, 53, 59, 155

  licensing, 11, 50, 111, 117, 129, 136–37, 227, 285

  substitution, 4, 15, 38, 137, 192, 307, 594, 604

  Imports and Exports (Controls) Act, 12, 70

  inclusive growth, 617–18

  incrementalism, logic of, 78–79

  Index of Government Economic Power (IGEP), 196

  India Development Bonds, 75

  India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited, 337

  India Infrastructure Project Development Fund (IIPDF), 337

  India Patents Act, 1970, 496

  India Policy Forum, xix

  Indian Accounting Standards, 471

  Indian Airlines, 71, 81–82, 331, 342, 508

  Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), 295

  Indian Institute of Science (IISc), 598, 604

  Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), 373

  Bombay, 308

  Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs), 373, 532, 533

  Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), 373

  Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs), 373

  Indian Oil Corporation, 313, 315, 316, 318, 319, 474

  Indian Railways, 327, 331, 358–59

  Indian School of Business, 604

  India–Singapore Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, 177–78

  indirect tax system, 50, 55, 87, 145, 158, 160, 240, 250, 304, 465

  Indo-Burmah Petroleum (IBP), 316, 317, 318

  Indulekha, 583

  industrial development, xiii, 27, 39, 40, 116, 317, 526

  and GDP growth, China versus India, 482–83

  Industrial Disputes Act, 266

  Industrial Exports, High-Level Committee (HLC) on, 10

  industrial licensing, 15, 18, 26–27, 73, 74, 502, 568

  abolished/deregulation of, 49, 302, 568, 575, 576, 579, 593

  Industrial Licensing Policy Inquiry Committee (1969), 15

  industrial modernization, 328

  industrial policy reforms, 3–43, 87, 592

  Industrial Policy Resolution

  1945, 13

  1948, 13, 40

  1956, 13, 40, 42, 299, 313

  1973, 40

  1977, 40

  1980, 40–41

  1990, 21, 22

  1991, 22, 26, 74, 76, 476, 592

  follow-up, 28–29

  what was not done, 29–33

  industrial restructuring, 30–31, 33, 37, 575

  industrial revolution, 14, 310, 499

  industrial tariffs, reduction, 276, 277

  Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs), 308, 381

  industrialization, 14, 40, 42, 31, 93, 192, 526, 560

  Industries (Development and Regulation) Act (IDR Act, 1951), 12, 22; (1956) 224, 576

  industry–research linkage, 533

  Indyk, Martin, xix

  Inequality, 60, 219, 377

  infant mortality rate (IMR), 386, 391, 393, 395

  inflation, 275, 448, 543

  in healthcare expenditure, 396

  customer-price, 73

  producer price, 73

  targeting, 415–16

  information and communications networks, 322

  information asymmetry, 387, 397

  information revolution, 218

  Information Technology (IT) sector, 93, 159, 250, 306, 369, 460, 470, 473, 480, 482, 493, 543, 559, 560, 588, 596, 614

  and IT-enabled industry, 306, 473, 531, 574

  industry, 181, 306, 473, 531

  infrastructure, 559, 569

  revolution, 560

  services, 58, 182, 527, 534, 572, 597

  services exports, 182

  Infosys, 12, 311, 465, 527, 569, 582, 610–15

  initial public offering (IPO), 597

  infrastructure, 270

  development, 34, 143, 327–28, 344, 350

  failure, 460

  investment, 34, 42, 321, 363, 366

  new opportunities, 363–65

  policy in India, 333

  policy reforms, 328

  PPP Adjudication Tribunal, 343

  projects, 326, 334, 340, 360–64, 472

  since 1991, 322–45

  way forward, 365–66

  Infrastructure Debt Funds, 341

  Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation (IDFC), 350, 351

  initial public offer (IPO), 419, 439, 487, 582, 587, 597, 613–14

  Insolvency and Bankruptcy Act, 427

  Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), 443

  Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), 598

  institution building in financial sector, 203, 363, 370, 373

  deficiencies within SEBI, 441

  HDFC experience, 446–56

  institutional

  bottlenecks, 333

  changes, 116, 328

  reforms, economic liberalization and, 203–04, 220

  insurance, 460

  joint ventures, 451–53

  private participants, 53–54

  regulatory authority, 54

  Insurance Act, 53–54

  Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA), 429, 438, 441, 451, 452

  Integrated Power Development Scheme (2013), 248, 334

  intellectual property (IP), 596, 605

  intellectual property rights (IPRs), 111–12, 145–46, 296

  interest rates, 75, 246, 409–11, 413, 416, 419, 425, 433, 442, 446, 448, 455

  international

  arbitration, 89

  competitiveness, 12

  consumer markets, 36

  debt market, 558

  financial institutions, 51

  liquidity, 107

  market, 110, 139–40, 290, 304, 310–11, 357, 408, 537, 557, 577, 586

  obligations, 137

  relations, xiii, 172

  supply chains, 142

  trade classification, harmonized system (ITC-HS), 22, 26

  International Corps Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), 604

  International Crops Research Institute for the

  International Fina
nce Corporation, 448

  International Monetary Fund (IMF), x, xix, 5–9, 29, 49, 51–52, 56, 58–60, 107–8, 276, 348, 542

  International Swaps and Derivatives Association, 431

  International Telecommunication Unit (ITU), 259

  Internet banking transactions, 69

  Internet connectivity, 217, 257, 488, 547, 563

  inter-regulatory coordination, 443

  investments and managerial practices, 483

  Iran and India, diplomatic relations, 169, 170, 183

  Irani, Jamshed, 226

  Iron Curtain, xvii

  ISIS, 184

  Itolizumab, 601

  Jack Welch Research Centre, Bengaluru, 532

  Jadhav, Kulbhushan, 181

  Jaguar Land Rover, 95, 588

  Jaitley, Arun, 230, 363, 365

  Jalan, Bimal, 21

  Committee report, 422

  Jammu and Kashmir, internationalization of, 170–71

  Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), 386, 393

  Janata Party, 13, 612

  Jan-Dhan initiative, 78

  Japan, 89, 100, 124

  economic growth, 89

  India, relations, 168, 172, 177, 179, 180

  rise as geoeconomic power, 192

  Jaswant Singh, xvii–xviii, 166

  Jet Airways, 569

  Jha, L.K., 16

  Jiang Zemin, 169

  Jihadi terrorism, 180

  Jio mission: global digital leadership and empowerment of aspirational India, 562–64

  Johnson, Lyndon B., xviii

  Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Stock Market Scam (2002), 434

  Jubilant Biosys, 604

  Jubilant Life Sciences, 606

  Judiciary, accountability, 214–15, 216, 218, 221; pendency of cases, 215

  Kalyani Centre for Technology and Innovation, 308

  Kalyani, Baba, 12, 36

  Kalyani, Neelkanth, 303, 491

  Kapur, Devesh, 39, 218

  Kargil war, xvii–xviii, 169, 180

  Karnataka State Financial Corporation (KSFC), 595–96

  Karnataka State Industrial Investment and Development Corporation (KSIIDC), 596

  Katragada, Gopichand, 536

  Kautilya’s Arthashastra, 191

  Kelkar, Vijay, 17, 145, 315, 360

  Committee, 340, 343, 361, 363, 365–66

  Kennedy, John F., xvi, xviii

  Kerkar, Ajit, 579

  Kesh King, 589

  key economic parameters since 1991, evolution, 114–15

  Keynes, John Maynard, 106

  Khan, Amjad Ali, 227

  Khan, Arif Mohammad, 19, 20

  Khan, H.R., 427

  Khrushchev, Nikita, xiv

  Kirloskar, 537

  Kissan, 583, 584

  Kissinger, Henri, xiv, xv, xvi, 176

  KKR, 351

  Kline, Stephen, 513

  Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, 603

  Korea

  National Innovative System, 529

  research and development (R & D), 514, 515

  Kores stencils, pink correcting fluids, duplicating ink and Gestetner Roneo, 69–70

  Kotak Mahindra Bank, 465

  Kremlin, Russia, xiv

  Krishna–Godavari basin, 317

  Krishnan, N.R., 25

  Kurien, P.J., 26

  Kurien, Verghese, 286

  Kux, Dennis, xiv

  labor

  demand–supply mismatch, 375

  export, 97–98

  female-participation, 62

  laws, 32, 37, 84, 85, 88, 249, 266, 310, 595

  market policies, 64, 84–85, 616

  reforms, 30–31, 460

  using industry, 13, 32, 36, 38

  Laden, Osama bin, 180

  Lamy, Pascal, xix

  Lanco, 351

  Land Rover, 588

  Larsen and Toubro, 351

  Lashkar-e-Taiba, 180

  Lateef, Sarwar, 39

  ‘Letter of Intent’ (LoI), 11, 486

  Lever Brothers, 488

  Lewis, John P., xviii

  liberalization

  of consumer goods, 53

  first steps, 301–02

  and Indian capital market crises, 440–41

  Liberalized Exchange Rate Management System (LERMS), 129

  Licence Permit Raj, 4, 11–16, 18, 300, 312, 338, 446, 567, 569, 577–78, 579–80, 582, 583

  Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), 418, 422, 423, 427, 451

  Line of Actual Control (LAC), 184–85

  Line of Control (LoC), xvii, 169

  liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) or canned cooking gas, before 1991, 69

  Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF), 413

  literacy, 252, 257–58. See also education, higher education

  Local Area Banks, 414

  logistics revolution, 488

  Lokpal, 216

  Look East policy, 168, 176, 227

  Lovastatin, 600

  Lovraj Kumar, 17

  Lupin, 606

  macroeconomic

  consolidation package, 48

  policy, xix, 9, 34, 191

  reforms, 276–77, 312, 314, 317, 321

  stability, 33, 237, 241, 251, 292

  Madan, Tanvi, xix

  Maddison, Angus, 554

  Madhavpura Mercantile Cooperative Bank, 435

  Madhur, Srinivas, 10

  Mafatlal group, 463, 493

  Mahalanobis, P.C., 239

  Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL), 326, 332, 475

  Maharashtra State Electricity Board, 330

  Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA), 414, 565

  Mahindra and Mahindra, 531, 537

  Major Port Trusts Act, 350, 354

  Make in India: a transformational initiative, 148, 181, 234, 306–07, 308, 310, 477–80, 483

  Malhotra, R.N. Committee, 54, 451

  Mallya, Vijay, 583

  Mandal Commission, 22, 377

  Mangalore Refinery, 474

  Manmohan Singh, xvii, 4–5, 7–9, 23–24, 26–28, 30, 33–34, 51, 78, 80, 91, 110, 166, 168, 174, 190, 204, 216, 226–27, 231, 232, 234–36, 276, 286, 312, 328, 440–41, 453, 459, 478, 502, 569, 578, 611, 614

  manufacturing sector, 299–311

  and agriculture, relative price index, 280 decline, 93, 481

  employment growth, 13

  labor-intensive, 63, 93, 103, 105, 481, 529–30 liberalization and, 84, 92–93, 302–3, 309, 311, 470, 473, 474, 488, 557, 560, 568, 578

  Maran, Dayanidhi, 86

  Marathe, S.S., 450

  maritime trade, 327

  market

  capitalization, 422, 433, 454, 461–62, 473, 500, 502, 507, 584, 588, 601, 616

  integrity, 420, 434, 436, 441

  and market participants, interdependence, 417

  Market Infrastructure Institutions (MIIs), 420–21, 422, 439–40

  Maruti 800, 71

  Maruti Suzuki Corporation, 465

  Marwah, Ved, 212

  Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), 383

  maternal mortality rate (MMR), 386, 395

  Mathur, Suresh, 22, 24

  Mauritius, 228

  double taxation avoidance agreements (DTAAs), 437–38

  Mazumdar, Rasendra, 489

  McKinsey, 315, 580, 582

  Medical Council of India, 376

  medical insurance, 89

  Mehrotra, Santosh, 62

  Mehta, Harshad, 434, 441

  Mehta, Vikram Singh, xix, xx

  Menon, Shivshankar, xiii, 35

  mergers and acquisitions, 593

  Merkel, Angela, 453

  Metals and Minerals Trading Corporation (MMTC), 474

  Mexico: services–manufacturing conundrum, 478

  micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), 598

  Microsoft, 612

  Midday Meal Scheme, 271

  middle class, 561–62

  Milkfoods, 584

 
minimum support prices (MSP), 280–81, 290

  mining, 467, 473

  Mittal, Sunil, 36

  mobile telephony, growth, 562

  Model Concession Agreements (MCA), 337, 357, 363

  Modern Bakeries, 583

  modernization, 30–32, 34

  Modi, Narendra, 54, 78–79, 85, 183–84, 186–87, 199, 233–35, 295, 306, 320, 459, 478

  Molecular Connections, 604

  monetary and banking sectors

  in 1980s, 408–09

  transformation, reforms and, 407–17

  between 1991–1997, 409–13

  post-1997 developments, 413–14

  monetary policy committee, 413–14

  Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices (MRTP) Act, 13, 25, 27, 28, 43, 49, 74, 302, 488, 502, 576, 580, 585, 587

  Monopolies and Trade Practices Commission, 224, 227

  Moolgaokar, Sumant, 586

  Mor, Nachiket, 38

  Morgan Stanley, 597

  most-favoured nation (MFN) tariffs, 121, 123, 126, 134

  India’s average MFN tariffs and tariffs of APEC economies, comparison, 126–27, 148

  Motorola, 612

  Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, xiv

  Mukand Iron and Steel, 463

  Mukherjee, Pranab, 334, 436

  multinational companies (MNCs), 320, 377, 545–46, 592, 594, 609, 612–15

  Mumbai blasts (1993), 167

  Mundra, 331

  municipal bond markets, 442

  municipal bonds, 427

  Murthy, N.R. Narayana, 36

  mutual funds, 419–20

  domestic, 431–32

  Nagarjuna Construction, 351

  Naidu, Chandrababu, 227, 232

  Nalanda University, 373

  Nanda, H.P., 463

  Narasimhan, M. Committee, 16, 50, 75, 411

  Naresh Chandra, 23, 26, 226

  Nasdaq, 597

  NASSCOM, 613

  National Academic Depository Bill (2011), 380–81

  National Accreditation Regulatory Authority for Higher Educational Institutions Bill, 380

  National Agriculture Market (NAM), 263

  National Biotechnology Board, 598

  National Commission for Higher Education and Research Bill, 380

  National Council for Teacher Education, 380

  National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), 32

  National Democratic Alliance (NDA), 52, 167, 204, 217, 229, 373, 380, 381, 476, 478

  National Development Council, 380

  National Electricity Policy, 2005, 247

  National Food Security Act (NFSA), 295

  National Food Security Mission (NFSM), 280, 290

  National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), 85, 337, 350, 352, 354, 364

  National Highways Development Programme (NHDP), 336, 350, 352, 354

  National Horticulture Mission (NHM), 290

  National Housing Bank (NHB), 8, 447

  National Human Rights Council (NHRC), 216

  National Hydro Power Corporation, 474

  National Infrastructure Investment Fund (NIIF), 363

  National Institutes of Technology (NITs), 373

 

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