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Federalism, nationalism and development: India and the Punjab economy

This monograph is a work of several years' intensive research that draws upon primary interviews with key policy makers, empirical data from Government of India's official and confidential documents, and materials on the making of the Indian constitution from historical archives on the Constituent Assembly Debates in India in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The chapters on the impact of India's federal structures on the agriculture, industry and the state finances of the Punjab contain theoretical rigour and empirical depth and present important data on three different domains of the development process.