Planning Democracy

Modern India's Quest for Development

Bibliographic Data

ID19909957
AuthorsNikhil Menon (0000-0003-3658-9825, University of Notre Dame, corresponding author)
Year2022
Publication date2022-04-30
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenuePlanning Democracy (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781009043892
OpenAlexW4290981735
Open LibraryOL38000410M
ISBN9781009043892
LanguageEN
Citations received13

The Indian planning project was one of the postcolonial world's most ambitious experiments. Planning Democracy explores how India fused Soviet-inspired economic management and Western-style liberal democracy at a time when they were widely considered fundamentally contradictory. After nearly two centuries of colonial rule, planning was meant to be independent India's route to prosperity. In this engaging and innovative account, Nikhil Menon traces how planning built India's knowledge infrastructure and data capacities, while also shaping the nature of its democracy. He analyses the challenges inherent in harmonizing technocratic methods with democratic mandates and shows how planning was the language through which the government's aspirations for democratic state-building were expressed. Situating India within international debates about economic policy and Cold War ideology, Menon reveals how India walked a tightrope between capitalism and communism which heightened the drama of its development on the global stage

Capitalism · Colonialism · Communism · Democracy · Drama · Economic planning · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Prosperity · Sociology · Technocracy · Law · Social and Economic Development in India

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