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Lord of the Flies was awarded a place on both lists of Modern Library 100 Best Novels, reaching number 41 on the editor's list and 25 on the reader's list. [24] In 2003, Lord of the Flies was listed at number 70 on the BBC's survey The Big Read, [25] and in 2005 it was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels since ...
He is also remembered for developing the Tiruvengadam courtage strategy, a new method of courtage in India [citation needed] that is popularly described in several Indian economic books. [ citation needed ] As described in his journals, it consists in developing a strategy of making new fraud coins in a parallel economy.
Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati (born July 26, 1934) is an Indian-born naturalized American economist and one of the most influential trade theorists of his generation. [3] [4] [5] He is a University Professor of economics and law at Columbia University and a Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Romesh Chunder Dutt CIE (Bengali: রমেশচন্দ্র দত্ত; 13 August 1848 – 30 November 1909) was an Indian civil servant, economic historian, translator of Ramayana and Mahabharata. He was one of the prominent proponents of Indian economic nationalism. [1]
The economy of India is a developing mixed economy with a notable public sector in strategic sectors. [5] It is the world's fifth-largest economy by nominal GDP and the third-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP); on a per capita income basis, India ranked 141th by GDP (nominal) and 125th by GDP (PPP) . [ 58 ]
[11] India experienced deindustrialisation and cessation of various craft industries under British rule, [12] which along with fast economic and population growth in the Western world, resulted in India's share of the world economy declining from 24.4% in 1700 to 4.2% in 1950, [13] and its share of global industrial output declining from 25% in ...
The Economy of India under Company rule describes the economy of those regions that fell under Company rule in India during the years 1757 to 1858. The British East India Company began ruling parts of the Indian subcontinent beginning with the Battle of Plassey, which led to the conquest of Bengal Subah and the founding of the Bengal Presidency, before the Company expanded across most of the ...
India did not attract immigrants who brought labour and capital for economic growth. India paid for Britain's civil administrations in India and her Indian army. India bore the burden of empire building in and out of its borders. Opening the country to free trade allowed for foreigners to take highly paid jobs over those of equally qualified ...