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India as an Organization: Volume Two

The Reconstruction of India

Palgrave Macmillan
  • A groundbreaking re-examination of India's history and political economy

  • Covers a wide scope of Indian hisotry

  • Looks at the stresses stresses placed on India’s organisation by the shocks of the twentieth century

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Introduction

    • Dipak Basu, Victoria Miroshnik
    Pages 1-4
  3. Turning Point: Planning and Reforms

    • Dipak Basu, Victoria Miroshnik
    Pages 5-54
  4. External Risk, Competitors and Rivals

    • Dipak Basu, Victoria Miroshnik
    Pages 55-107
  5. Internal Risk, Weakness of the Organization

    • Dipak Basu, Victoria Miroshnik
    Pages 109-166
  6. The Way Ahead

    • Dipak Basu, Victoria Miroshnik
    Pages 167-172
  7. Conclusion

    • Dipak Basu, Victoria Miroshnik
    Pages 173-176
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 183-187

About this book

This book, the second of two volumes, continues the authors’ ground-breaking re-examination of India’s history and political economy. This volume describes the economic fortunes of India in the second half of the 20th century. Beginning with the reconstruction of the Planning Commission and India's hybrid model of economic planning, the authors describe the multiple shocks weathered by the system before being replaced with a fully free market model after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Chapters consider the stresses placed on India’s organisation by the shocks of the twentieth century, from its experiments with a socialist economy to its embrace of the Washington consensus in the 1980s. The impact of the invasion of China in 1962 and India’s struggle to find its feet post-partition are also given detailed analysis. The book’s unique perspective helps to shed light, for the first time, on how India’s organisational structure negotiated the country’s immense historical and cultural inheritance with the stresses of a twentieth century nation state. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Nagasaki University , Nagasaki, Japan

    Dipak Basu

  • Reitaku University, Tokyo, Japan

    Victoria Miroshnik

About the authors

Dipak Basu is currently Emeritus Professor in Nagasaki University and professor in Finance in Tohoku University Graduate School in Tsuruoka, Japan. Previously he was Lecturer at the Institute of Agricultural Economics of Oxford University, Research Officer in the Department of Applied Economics of Cambridge University, Senior Economist in charge of the Middle East & Africa division of Standard & Poor, and Senior Economist in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia. He was awarded Honorary Doctorate from Nagasaki University. He has received his PhD from the University of Birmingham.

Victoria Miroshnik  is currently Professor in Management in Reitaku University, Tokyo. Previously she was Associate Professor in the American University Dubai, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Japan, and Keimyung University in South Korea. She was awarded the Adam Smith Research Fellowship from the University of Glasgow. Her previous books are Corporate Culture in Multinationals and Organizational Culture and Commitment.  She has received her PhD from the University of Glasgow.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: India as an Organization: Volume Two

  • Book Subtitle: The Reconstruction of India

  • Authors: Dipak Basu, Victoria Miroshnik

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53369-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-53368-1Published: 18 October 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85136-5Published: 14 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-53369-8Published: 03 October 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 180

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Asian Economics, Development Economics, Economic Policy, Economic History, Asian Culture

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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