Abstract
This paper will examine the path of Indian economic development from independence in 1947 through the completion of the Third Five-Year Plan in 1965. It will explore the ways in which the ruling Congress Party sought to build a “socialist pattern of society” through industrialization and central planning, focusing on the economic vision of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his planner-in-chief Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis. It will also examine the international politics of Indian planning, showing how diplomats and economists in the superpowers sought to alter the direction of Indian economic policy, turning India’s Five-Year Plans into hotspots in a new kind of Cold War.
May be published as "Solidarity, Development, and Non-Alignment: Foreign Economic Advisors and Indian Planning in the 1950s and 1960s."