Founding Fathers of Indian Political Economy

ISBN Number : 81-8318-096-5

Library Price : Rs.550

Library Dollar Price : 22$

Book Edition : First

Year of Publication : 2005

About The Book

This volume brings together the papers presented at a seminar on Classical Indian Political Economy held at the University of Mumbai in March 2002. There is no doubt that a rich tradition of economic thinking and writing flourished in India beginning with the latter half of the 19th century and extending right up to the closing decades of the twentieth century. However, in recent years this tradition seems to be languishing, and a whole new generation of Indian economists has been brought up in virtually total ignorance of Indian Economics. It is with a view to remedy this unbalanced and paradoxical situation that the seminar was held, and the same motivation underpins the decision to publish the Proceedings. The contributors cover a wide spectrum and include well known senior academics such as the (late) Prof. P.R. Brahmananda, Prof. Y.B. Damle, Prof. S.H. Deshpande and Prof. P.R. Dubhashi, as well as a host of younger contributors mainly drawn from Universities in Maharashtra. The scope of the volume is extensive and covers the thinking of classical Indian writers such as Ranade, Naoroji, Tilak, Gokhale, Gandhi and Ambedkar as well as Modern Indian writers such as Gadgil, Vakil, Brahmananda, Mahalanobis, Chakravarty and Sen. It is seriously hoped that the volume will go some way towards mitigating the apathy that seems to characterise the current attitude towards mitigating the apathy that seems to characterise the current attitude towards Indian Economics in India.

Book Content of Founding Fathers of Indian Political Economy
  1. The Lost Trails or Some Thoughts on Pre-independence Thinking in Economics in India
  2. The Decline of Indian Economics
  3. Making Economics Under The Empire: Economic Writings in Western India in the 19th Century
  4. R.C. Dutt`s Contribution to Indian Economic Thought
  5. Tilak
  6. State Intervention in Early Indian Economic Thought
  7. Ranade, Gadgil, V.K.R.V. Rao and Amartya Sen
  8. Political Economy and Economy Rationale of Nationalist Thinking on Indian Currency and Exchange: From Naoroji and Ranade to Ambedkar and Gandhi
  9. Gandhian Economic Thought
  10. Prof. Gadgil`s Economic Vision
  11. The Lost Decades
  12. Comparative Perspectives on Indian Economic Thought
  13. Brahmananda, Chakravarty, Sen: A Golden Brai

About The Author

Dr. Dilip M. Nachane is currently Senior Professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), having earlier been Director and Professor of Quantitative Economics at the University of Mumbai. He holds an M.A. (Pure Mathematics), M.A. (Economics) and Ph.D. (Econo-mics) — all from the University of Mumbai. He has been Fulbright Fellow at the University of Texas (Austin) U.S.A., Hallsworth Fellow at the University of Manchester, U.K., and Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Additionally he has held visiting Professorships at the University of British Columbia (Canada), Otto von Guericke University (Germany), the University of Ulster (U.K) and several other Universities in Europe. He has published extensively in reputed journals such as Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics, Manchester School, Journal of Forecasting, Welwirtschaftliches Archiv, IEEE Transactions, Applied Economics, Singapore Economic Review, Journal of International Development etc. He was elected President of the Indian Econometric Society (2002-2003) and is currently Editor of the Journal of Quantitative Economics.

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