‘Reforms by stealth’: Indian economic policy, big business and the promise of the Shastri years, 1964-1966

South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 205-229

  Kudaisya, Medha M ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC HISTORY; ECONOMIC POLICY; ECONOMIC REFORM;

INDIA;

EID: 0036706317     PISSN: 00856401     EISSN: 14790270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00856400208723482     Document Type: Article

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