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India’s developmental strategy after independence was influenced by economic imperatives, not ideological considerations. Comment.

  • UPSC 2024
  • Economic Development and Political Change

Post-1947 India's strategy — planning, public-sector dominance, import substitution — wore socialist language but answered material compulsions.

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  • The Case That Ideology Mattered
  • The Stronger Case: Economic Imperatives Set the Terms
  • Where Imperative and Ideology Fused
  • Weighing the Verdict

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