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Arvind Panagariya's book explores Jawaharlal Nehru's long economic shadow

On why Nehru's long economic shadow sustained till 1991 - nearly three decades after his passing - the author points to the near continuous, political domination of the Nehru family

The Nehru Development Model: History and its lasting impact
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The Nehru Development Model: History and its lasting impact

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The Nehru Development Model: History and its lasting impact
Author: Arvind Panagariya
Publisher: Penguin Viking, 2024
Pages: 345
Price: Rs 856

This magisterial review of modern India’s economic history by a celebrated international trade economist, earlier chair of the NITI Aayog and currently the chair of India’s 16th Finance Commission was written during the pensive days of Covid-19 and is dedicated to the author’s brother — an eminent Indian neurologist — who sadly passed on then. It is refreshingly free of dry technicalities. Instead, a lively, albeit heavily annotated, style, transports readers into the minds of politicians, business leaders and intellectuals, reading in

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