The politics of liberalisation in early post‐independence India
Food deregulation in 1947
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11925414 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ian Duncan (0000-0003-4774-8254, University of Sussex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-45 |
| Publication date | 1995-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0306-3631 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14662049508447694 |
| OpenAlex | W2014128470 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 9 |
INTRODUCTION Interest in the ways in which the role of state intervention and regulation relates to economic performance in the countries of the south has grown enormously in the last decade as the potential and actual impact of measures of economic liberalisation have received more attention. Much interest has been devoted to India where the faltering attempts at liberalisatio n by the Rajiv Gandhi government in the mid-1980s produced few concrete results but prepared the way for the more comprehensive measures now being introduced. India had possessed one of the most regulated economies in the non-communist world and had been seen as a model of an import-substitution strategy of development. The political hegemony of the Congress under Nehru had established the framework of planning and regulation as an orthodoxy which was challenged by few. Yet the early years of independence had seen an intense political debate about the role of controls and planning in the economy and nowhere was this debate joined with more vigour than in the area of regulation of the supply and distribution of food. The first major economic policy decision taken by the Indian government after independence was the abolition of most of the system of regulation and control of the foodgrain market which had been developed during the course of the Second World War. In late 1947 the government began to dismantle the machinery of state intervention in the commodities markets and by far the most important and farreaching aspect of this policy of liberalisatio n was the ending of the various measures of state regulation of the pricing and marketing of foodgrains. In December 1947 it was announced that controls on foodgrains were to be lifted and that the private domestic market, subject to some residual controls, was to be restored. The decision was a
Deregulation · Development economics · Economic interventionism · Economic policy · Economics · Economy · Government (linguistics · Hegemony · Independence (probability theory · Intervention (counseling · Liberalization · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · State (computer science · Agricultural Economics and Practices · Indian Economic and Social Development · Law · Social and Economic Development in India
Collective Politics of Foodgrains Markets in South Asia
Nehru and Indian Planning
Food Administration in India 1939–47
The Political Economy of the Raj, 1914-47. The Economics of Decolonization in India
Political Aspects of Indian Food Policy
Planning of Post-War Economic Development in India
Food Administration in India 1939-47
The Economic Prospect for India
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2020 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |