The Indian planning project was one of the postcolonial world's
most ambitious experiments. Planning Democracy explores how India
fused Soviet-inspired economic management and Western-style liberal
democracy at a time when they were widely considered fundamentally
contradictory. After nearly two centuries of colonial rule,
planning was meant to be independent India's route to prosperity.
In this engaging and innovative account, Nikhil Menon traces how
planning built India's knowledge infrastructure and data
capacities, while also shaping the nature of its democracy. He
analyses the challenges inherent in harmonizing technocratic
methods with democratic mandates and shows how planning was the
language through which the government's aspirations for democratic
state-building were expressed. Situating India within international
debates about economic policy and Cold War ideology, Menon reveals
how India walked a tightrope between capitalism and communism which
heightened the drama of its development on the global stage.
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