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It’s caste, stupid

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  Kuffir Unfortunately thought in India is rare, and free thought is rarer still. This is particularly true of Hindus. ~ Babasaheb Ambedkar, in the epilogue to ‘Pakistan, or The Partition of India’. The left has been questioning the foundations of anti-caste politics recently, a little more whiningly than it usually does because it has …

Thought

Institutions and Economic Development

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Dr. Bhalchandra Mungekar In the post colonial countries, suffering from pauperized agriculture on the one hand; and, virtual deindustrialization on the other, achieving faster rates of economic growth was naturally a preeminent objective of economic policy. For without substantially increasing, on a sustained basis, the volume of production of agricultural and industrial goods and, making …

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Inclusive Growth: Why? And How?

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Dr. Bhalchandra Mungekar (Maiden speech of Dr. Bhalchandra Mungekar, Member of Rajya Sabha, delivered in the House on 4th May, 2010) Mr. Deputy Chairman, Sir, thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to speak on the Finance Bill in this august House. Sir, it is gratifying that after the global financial crisis of …