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125517 results in Asian Studies

Page 2008 of 6276

  • 3 - India's Economic Transformation

  • Sumit Ganguly, Indiana University, Bloomington, Rahul Mukherji
  • Book:
    India Since 1980
    Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    01 August 2011, pp 60-108

  • Summary

    How did India make the transition from an economic laggard to one of the most rapidly growing economies in the world? Its sluggish economic development had once been pejoratively described as the “Hindu rate of growth.” Industrial modernization and the so-called green revolution could muster a mere 3.4 percent average annual rate of growth between 1956 and 1974, at a time when many Asian economies were booming. But between 1975 and 1990, the country's economic growth accelerated at a rate higher than 5 percent and then increased to more than 6 percent after 1992. Subsequently, the Indian economy grew at 8.8 percent between 2003 and 2007, and thereby transformed itself into one of the fastest- growing economies in the world along with China. The World Bank–International Monetary Fund (IMF) Annual Meeting in Singapore in 2006 was dedicated to the rise of China and India. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, India continued to grow more rapidly (6.7% during 2008–9) than all the major Asian economies, except China.

    To address these questions, it is necessary to trace how India embarked upon this growth path. Its policy makers gradually deregulated private-sector investment after 1975. Deregulation from the mid-1970s needs to be understood in the context of a political and economic environment that had produced one of the most highly regulated economies in the world. The phenomenon of industrial deregulation was consolidated in the 1980s.

  • That Ban(e) of Indian Music: Hearing Politics in The Harmonium

  • Matt Rahaim
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Asian Studies / Volume 70 / Issue 3 / August 2011
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    09 September 2011, pp. 657-682
    Print publication:
    August 2011

  • The harmonium is both widely played and widely condemned in India. During the Indian independence movement, both British and Indian scholars condemned the harmonium for embodying an unwelcome foreign musical sensibility. It was consequently banned from All-India Radio from 1940 to 1971, and still is only provisionally accepted on the national airwaves. The debate over the harmonium hinged on putative sonic differences between India and the modern West, which were posited not by performers, but by a group of scholars, composers, and administrators, both British and Indian. The attempt to banish the sound of the harmonium was part of an attempt to define a national sound for India, distinct from the West. Its continued use in education served a somewhat different national project: to standardize Indian music practice. This paper examines the intertwined aesthetic and political ideals that underlie the harmonium controversy.

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