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This article outlines the debates amongst Indian economists on planning, transforming agriculture, poverty and income distribution, and political economy and institutions. It shows that much of this work pioneered many analyses which have come to define the sub-discipline of ‘development economics’.

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Lal, D. (2018). India, Economics in. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2842

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