The Price of Aid

The Economic Cold War in India

David C. Engerman

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Publication Date: 02/19/2018

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Introduction: Foreign Aid and Development Politics in India
I. Learning Development, 1947–1955
- 1. Debating Development and Discovering India
- 2. Inventing Development Aid
II. The Heyday of the Economic Cold War, 1955–1966
- 3. The Geopolitics of Economic Expertise
- 4. The Aid Project and Cold War Competition
- 5. “Free Money” and the Tilt toward the West
- 6. Military Supply and the Vicissitudes of Aid Politics
III. The Bitter Fruits of Development Politics, 1960–1974
- 7. Bets, Bargains, and the Price of American Aid
- 8. Soviet Aid from Inspiration to Armory
- 9. India’s Double Crisis and the Price of Aid
Conclusion: Development Politics and the Price of Aid
Note on Sources
Abbreviations
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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