Medha Kudaisya
Biographic Data
| ID | 1248667 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Medha Kudaisya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Medha |
| FAMILY NAME | Kudaisya |
| SIGNATURE | KUDAISYA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rahul Bajaj
Rahul Bajaj, long-time chairman of the more-than-120-year-old Bajaj empire—best known for Bajaj Auto, one of the most valuable motorcycle firms globally, and Bajaj Finserv, its financial services arm—was a larger-than-life figure in Indian industry and public life. Famed for his probity, Bajaj twice served as president of the Confederation of Indian Industry, was an elected member of the Rajya Sabha (the upper house of Parliament), was awarded a …
Mercantile Communities, Business and State in Twentieth-Century India
As one of the two last students at Cambridge who was taken on as supervisee by Anthony Low in 1988 I felt especially privileged. My research interest straddled two areas: mercantile communities (th
Developmental Planning in 'Retreat
This article concerns the history of economic planning in India in the late 1960s, when a vigorous debate took place on the institutions, instruments, and 'personnel' of developmental planning. Examining the years from 1967 to 1971, this article shows how dramatic attempts were made by warring politicians with the help of technocrats to decentralize economic planning, grant states more fiscal autonomy, and drastically reduce the powers of the Pla…
The Promise of Partnership”
This article recounts the story of the Bombay Plan of 1944, a bold vision of economic transformation for postwar India put forth by business leaders. The Plan represented a turning point in the history of Indian business. It marked the institutionalization of a long relationship between business and nationalist leadership as well as a historic moment when business groups, for the first time, unhesitatingly aligned themselves with nationalist aspi…
Marwari And Chettiar Merchant’s, C. 1850s–1950s
This essay examines the story of two prominent mercantile communities in the Indian subcontinent, the Marwaris and the Chettiars, often portrayed as 'counter-parts' of each other in the historical literature on South Asian business. Tracing the divergent trajectories that traders from both communities followed, this article studies the phases of their evolution and seeks to ascertain the reasons for the differing fortunes of Marwari and Chettiar …
A Mighty Adventure
This essay examines the Indias' political leadership's romantic engagement with the idea of developmental planning in post-colonial India between 1947 and 1960. It looks at the experience of planning in India between 1947 and 1960. It explores some of the early ideas about developmental planning and the setting up of the Planning Commission in March 1950. Although there was widespread acceptance of the need for planning there was little consensus…
Reforms by stealth’
G. D. Birla, big business and India's partition
A Mighty Adventure
This essay examines the Indias' political leadership's romantic engagement with the idea of developmental planning in post-colonial India between 1947 and 1960. It looks at the experience of planning in India between 1947 and 1960. It explores some of the early ideas about developmental planning and the setting up of the Planning Commission in March 1950. Although there was widespread acceptance of the need for planning there was little consensus…
The Promise of Partnership”
This article recounts the story of the Bombay Plan of 1944, a bold vision of economic transformation for postwar India put forth by business leaders. The Plan represented a turning point in the history of Indian business. It marked the institutionalization of a long relationship between business and nationalist leadership as well as a historic moment when business groups, for the first time, unhesitatingly aligned themselves with nationalist aspi…
Developmental Planning in 'Retreat
This article concerns the history of economic planning in India in the late 1960s, when a vigorous debate took place on the institutions, instruments, and 'personnel' of developmental planning. Examining the years from 1967 to 1971, this article shows how dramatic attempts were made by warring politicians with the help of technocrats to decentralize economic planning, grant states more fiscal autonomy, and drastically reduce the powers of the Pla…
Reforms by stealth’
G. D. Birla, big business and India's partition
Reforms by stealth’
A Mighty Adventure
This essay examines the Indias' political leadership's romantic engagement with the idea of developmental planning in post-colonial India between 1947 and 1960. It looks at the experience of planning in India between 1947 and 1960. It explores some of the early ideas about developmental planning and the setting up of the Planning Commission in March 1950. Although there was widespread acceptance of the need for planning there was little consensus…
Marwari And Chettiar Merchant’s, C. 1850s–1950s
This essay examines the story of two prominent mercantile communities in the Indian subcontinent, the Marwaris and the Chettiars, often portrayed as 'counter-parts' of each other in the historical literature on South Asian business. Tracing the divergent trajectories that traders from both communities followed, this article studies the phases of their evolution and seeks to ascertain the reasons for the differing fortunes of Marwari and Chettiar …
The Promise of Partnership”
This article recounts the story of the Bombay Plan of 1944, a bold vision of economic transformation for postwar India put forth by business leaders. The Plan represented a turning point in the history of Indian business. It marked the institutionalization of a long relationship between business and nationalist leadership as well as a historic moment when business groups, for the first time, unhesitatingly aligned themselves with nationalist aspi…
Developmental Planning in 'Retreat
This article concerns the history of economic planning in India in the late 1960s, when a vigorous debate took place on the institutions, instruments, and 'personnel' of developmental planning. Examining the years from 1967 to 1971, this article shows how dramatic attempts were made by warring politicians with the help of technocrats to decentralize economic planning, grant states more fiscal autonomy, and drastically reduce the powers of the Pla…
Mercantile Communities, Business and State in Twentieth-Century India
As one of the two last students at Cambridge who was taken on as supervisee by Anthony Low in 1988 I felt especially privileged. My research interest straddled two areas: mercantile communities (th
Rahul Bajaj
Rahul Bajaj, long-time chairman of the more-than-120-year-old Bajaj empire—best known for Bajaj Auto, one of the most valuable motorcycle firms globally, and Bajaj Finserv, its financial services arm—was a larger-than-life figure in Indian industry and public life. Famed for his probity, Bajaj twice served as president of the Confederation of Indian Industry, was an elected member of the Rajya Sabha (the upper house of Parliament), was awarded a …
Economics (7 works) · Indian Economic and Social Development (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Social and Economic Development in India (4 works) · Politics (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Business (2 works)