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DILEMMAS OF GROWTH: The Indian Experience. By M. L. Dantwala. Edited by Pravin Visaria, N. A. Mujumdar and T R. Sundaram. Newbury Park (California), New Delhi, London: Sage Publications. 1996. 403 pp. (Tables.) US$38. 00. cloth. ISBN 0-8039-9266-1.
THE TWENTY-TWO PAPERS included in this well-edited volume give a microscopic view of India's post-independence struggle for economic growth. Carefully selected from some three hundred articles authored by Dantwala over a period of forty years first when he was professor of agricultural economics in the University of Bombay and later when he served on numerous working groups and panels, these essays throw much light on the tensions and conflicts of a country faced with a very large rural population in villages with poor infrastructure and acute...