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Press Release: Reform Nation by Gautam Chikermane

HarperCollins

is proud to announce the upcoming release of

Reform Nation

From the Constraints of P.V. Narasimha Rao to the Convictions of Narendra Modi

by Gautam Chikermane

Releasing on 29th August 2022

 

The first four decades of an independent India were of an inward-looking economy. An India that would be self sustaining and one where the state played a dominant role in everything, where entrepreneurs were relegated to the backyards of the economy, wealth creators treated as criminals and money seen as evil. The result was an environment that placed hurdles before India’s growth and kept citizens poor.

 

 

“Reform Nation establishes how over the years, as the Indian economy grew in scale and confidence, and the outcomes delivered growth and have almost ended extreme poverty, the constraints for reforms during Prime Minister Narasimha Rao’s time have turned into convictions for reforms under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In the foreseeable future, I see this trend to accelerate, and accentuate the creation of a wealthy India.” Says the author, Gautam Chikermane.

 

How did a nation that lived in poverty and scarcity for forty-four years post its independence create new pathways for growth? What drove a country where scooters and telephones were luxuries towards high-end cars and mobile phones? From the limited homegrown products, how did a nation embrace global brands? How did an economy that was on the verge of a financial default in 1991 take wings to fly? Reform Nation tracks India’s economic journey that got a reboot on 24 July 1991 and celebrates the path of India as the world’s sixth-largest economy, with all indicators pointing to it becoming the world’s third-largest within this decade.

 

“Reform Nation is an important book that captures how an inward-looking economy transformed into one of the largest economies in the world. Gautam Chikermane has done a phenomenal job of analyzing all major economic reforms under successive governments in the last three decades. He provides a fresh perspective on how the country reached here and what does the future hold for us. We are proud to publish Reform Nation in the 75th year of India’s Independence.”

-Sachin Sharma, Executive Editor, HarperCollins

Gautam Chikermane analyses all major economic reforms crafted by six successive prime ministers—from P.V. Narasimha Rao to Narendra Modi—over the last thirty years and offers fresh insights into a new and rising India. In doing so, he shows how we got here, and what it will take to move into the next phase of economic growth.

AUTHOR BIO

GAUTAM CHIKERMANE is a vice president at Observer Research Foundation. His areas of expertise are economics, politics, foreign policy and the Mahabharata.

For more information, please write to Aman Arora at aman.arora@harpercollins.co.in

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