Changing India

Description

Manmohan Singh is globally renowned as the economist who played a key role in ushering in India’s economic liberalization and as the statesman who was Prime Minister of India for ten years. This eminent policymaker, however, remains at heart a thinker and a scholar.
Changing India, a set of five volumes, is the definitive expression of Singh’s perspectives on a wide range of economic, social, and political issues as they evolved over his long and eventful career. It covers a broad span of time, from his days in academia during the 1950s to 2014 when he completed two consecutive terms as Prime Minister. Including select writings, speeches, interviews, and press conferences, the volumes reflect his views on various themes, including trade and development, economic reforms, the quest for social equity, and India’s place in the world. Not only do they offer an insight into the mind of this important figure in India’s political and economic history, they help us understand the unfolding of that history itself.

About the Author

Dr. Manmohan Singh is an internationally renowned economist and statesman. He taught at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India, and at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India. He occupied several major administrative positions in the Government of India, including that of Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. He worked with UNCTAD and was Secretary General of the South Commission. As Finance Minister of India from 1991 to 1996, he initiated far-reaching reforms that transformed the Indian economy. In 2004, Dr. Singh became the thirteenth Prime Minister of India, heading the United Progressive Alliance government. He served as Prime Minister for two consecutive terms until 2014. He is currently a Member of Parliament.

About the Editors

C. Rangarajan is a leading economist who has played a key role both as an academic and a policymaker. He has held several important positions, including that of Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, Governor of Andhra Pradesh, and Chairman of the Twelfth Finance Commission. Rangarajan was the RBI Governor during 1992–97, when India embarked on economic reforms. He was President of the Indian Economic Association in 1988 and 2017, and President of the Indian Econometric Society in 1994. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 2002. He is the author of several books on the Indian economy.

K. Sundaram is Chairman of the Advisory Committee on National Accounts Statistics, Central Statistical Organisation, Government of India; and former Member of the Expert Group to Review the Methodology for Measurement of Poverty, Planning Commission, Government of India. He served as Head, Department of Economics, as well as Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Delhi, India. Additionally, he was Regional Adviser, Asia and Pacific, International Labour Organization (Bangkok), and was associated with the National Sample Survey Organisation, Government of India. His research interests include population and development; employment, unemployment and poverty in India; and public finance.

Lord Nicholas Stern is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, UK. He is President of the Royal Economic Society and a member of the G20 Eminent Persons Group on Financial Systems. He was Chief Economist both at the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Head of the UK Government Economic Service. He produced the landmark The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change (2006). His recent books are Why Are We Waiting? The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate Change (2015) and How Lives Change: Palanpur, India and Development Economics (co-authored, 2018).

Shantanu Singh is Research Fellow with the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines India Observatory at the London School of Economics, UK. He has an MSc in economics from the London School of Economics and an undergraduate degree in engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He researches on labour, skills, technological change, and development in a South Asian context. He also works on entrepreneurship and the economics of social networks in India. Singh’s prior professional experiences include work and research at investment and central banks in India and Singapore.

Rudrangshu Mukherjee is Professor of history and the Chancellor of Ashoka University, Sonepat, India, of which he was also the founding Vice Chancellor. He was awarded a DPhil in modern history by the University of Oxford, UK, in 1981. He taught history at the University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India, and held visiting appointments at Princeton University, USA, the University of Manchester, UK, and the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. He was also the Editor, Editorial Pages, The Telegraph. He has written extensively on the revolt of 1857 and on other themes related to modern Indian history. His two latest books are Nehru and Bose: Parallel Lives (2014) and Twilight Falls on Liberalism (2018).