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This is a comprehensive coverage of the making of modern business class in India, from 1947 to the present. Relating socio-economic changes and political transformation to shifts in the business climate and policies, it argues that the popular belief that the Nehru government was hostile to the free enterprise system is wrong. It examines how the Nehru government’s policies were informed by a balance between state participation in business and the freedom ...
The Growing importance of business in the economic and social life of the country notwithstanding, research on the formative phases of Indian business is almost non-existent. The Oxford History of Indian Business is one of the first to provide an analysis of the roots of modern business practices in India and of the forces that shaped the features and characteristics that distinguish business today. Illustrated with rare pictures, this authoritative history of ...
This book is a significant contribution to the literature on comparative entrepreneurship. Studies in this area are few and far between. Still fewer are works dealing with historical experiences of different societies in the realm of entrepreneurship. A crossnational analysis with focus on a long time horizon should most likely provide a deeper understanding of the phenomenon. This is what this book does. Another and the principal purpose of this work is to ...