Contents

Preface

Policy, Governance and Institutions: Mapping India after Seven Decades of Freedom

Vinod Rai and Amitendu Palit

I India’s External Security Challenges

Shivshankar Menon

II India in a Globalized World: Maximizing Benefits and Minimizing Costs

Duvvuri Subbarao

III India’s Elections and Electoral Reforms at Seventy

S.Y. Quraishi

IV India’s Media 1947 to 2017

Robin Jeffrey

V India–ASEAN Relations at Seventy

Tan Tai Yong

VI Normalizing the Unique: Explaining the Persistence of Caste

Dipankar Gupta

VII Towards Sustainable, Productive and Profitable Agriculture

Ashok Gulati and Gayathri Mohan

VIII The Rise and Fall of Indian Planning

Pronab Sen

IX Will India Ever Be a Great Power?

Sumit Ganguly

X Non-Governmental Organizations in India: Contribution, Challenges and Future Prospects

Poonam Muttreja

XI Indian Industry: Prospects and Challenges

Rajiv Kumar

XII Land: Finite, Fragmented, Fragile, Fraught

Sanjoy Chakravorty

XIII Healthcare in India: Looking back, looking ahead

A.K. Shiva Kumar

XIV Jobs in India

Amitendu Palit

XV Challenges Facing Higher Education in India

Sumita Dawra

XVI Few Hits, Many Misses: India’s Mixed Record in the International Sporting Arena since 1947

Ronojoy Sen

XVII Civil Service Reforms in India

S. Narayan

XVIII Clean or Not-Clean: India’s Energy Dilemma

Subhomoy Bhattacharjee

XIX Democracy’s Angry Crowds: Civil Society and Legitimacy in India

Subrata K. Mitra

XX India As an Asian Power

Dhruva Jaishankar

XXI Indian Media at Seventy: Five Big Challenges

Nalin Mehta

XXII New India Needs a New Model for Skill Development

Pawan Agarwal

XXIII Corporate Governance in India: A Giant Leap in the Last Five Years

U.K. Sinha

XXIV Tax Policy Design and Development: The Indian Story

Pinaki Chakraborty

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Footnotes

Appendix 1

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Notes

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