TY - BOOK AU - Subhash C Jain AU - Ben L Kedia TI - Reshaping India in the New Global Context SN - 9781785369001 (Hardback) U1 - 330.34 PY - 2017/// CY - Cheltenham PB - Edward Elgar Publishing KW - Economic development - India KW - India - Economic policy KW - Cost and standard of living - India KW - BUSINESS and ECONOMICS / Economics / General KW - BUSINESS and ECONOMICS / Reference KW - Cost and standard of living KW - Economic development KW - Economic policy KW - India gains independence KW - Birth of the Republic of India KW - Restarting India: enhancing agriculture, infrastructure, education and innovation N2 - This book traces the history of India's progress since its independence in 1947 and advances strategies for continuing economic growth. Insiders and outsiders that have criticized India for slow economic growth fail to recognize all it has achieved in the last seven decades, including handling the migration of over 8 million people from Pakistan, integrating over 600 princely states into the union, managing a multi-language population into one nation and resolving the food problem. The end result is a democratic country with a strong institutional foundation ER -