Policy and Performance

Policy and Performance outlines the agricultural and rural development policies adopted by the British and the government of independent India. Professor Dubhashi considers the process of policy-making; the environment in which policies were formulated; factors affecting policies; their objectives and how far they succeeded in achieving their goals.

This comprehensive survey of thirty years of agricultural and rural development policies in India highlights both the successes and failures. The author provides an new holistic formulation of a policy that could be adopted for consideration by politicians and bureaucrats.