Political Science · Political Processes in India
UGC NET 2023 Political Science
Who refers to the new economic policy in 1991 as a tipping point transformation?
AAtul Kohli
BRahul Mukherji ✓ Correct
CLouisse Tillin
DAshutosh Varshney
Correct answer: (B) Rahul Mukherji — Rahul Mukherji refers to the 1991 New Economic Policy as a tipping point transformation in India's economic strategy.
Explanation
★Rahul Mukherji refers to the 1991 New Economic Policy as a tipping point transformation in India's economic strategy.
★He argues that the 1991 reforms marked a decisive shift from a state-led, inward, controlled economy to a more liberalised and market-oriented one.
★The change involved deregulation, lower trade barriers, easier foreign investment and the unwinding of the licence-permit system.
★Mukherji stresses that ideational shifts within the policy elite during the 1980s prepared the ground for this break.
★Louise Tillin works on federalism and state reorganisation; Ashutosh Varshney on ethnic conflict and democracy; Atul Kohli on state-directed development.
★For NET, tie Mukherji to the 1991 reforms as a tipping point and to the role of ideas in policy change.
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