Arvind Panagariya's book explores Jawaharlal Nehru's long economic shadow
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The Nehru Development Model: History and its lasting impact
5 min read Last Updated : Sep 30 2024 | 12:02 AM IST
The Nehru Development Model: History and its lasting impact
Author: Arvind Panagariya
Publisher: Penguin Viking, 2024
Pages: 345
Price: Rs 856
This magisterial review of modern India’s economic history by a celebrated international trade economist, earlier chair of the NITI Aayog and currently the chair of India’s 16th Finance Commission was written during the pensive days of Covid-19 and is dedicated to the author’s brother — an eminent Indian neurologist — who sadly passed on then. It is refreshingly free of dry technicalities. Instead, a lively, albeit heavily annotated, style, transports readers into the minds of politicians, business leaders and intellectuals, reading in
