Amaravati is exclusive, alienating to other regions and damaging to the ecology. The Polavaram dam is insensitive to lakhs of people, environmentally destructive and, what is worse, unsafe. The first government of AP obviously got its priorities wrong. Instead of discussing these priorities, the people got busy blaming the Centre and making unfair demands on it. This book, apart from critiquing the priorities set by AP's first government, argues for an eco-friendly and inclusive economic model giving primacy to agriculture.

Prof. Adapa Satyanarayana Presently Teaching At The Department Of History, Osmania University, Hyderabad. His Other Publications Include: Andhra Peasants Under British Rule, Manohar Publishers, New Delhi, 1991 And Dalit And Upper Castes: Essays In Social History , Kanishka Publishers, New Delhi, 2005. He Has Published About 40 Research Papers In Various National And International Journals. His Current Research Interests Are Social History Of Modern India, With Speical Focus On The Telugu Labour Migrations Abroad.

The book comprises eight lectures delivered by T.N. Srinivasan at ISEC Bangalore in 1998. The short lectures succinctly describe the reform process since the early 1990s, covering the famework and process of reform in each sector of the economy.

Lectures delivered during 2005-06 at Hyderabad by eminent scholars; some were revised.

A number of eminent economists contributed to this collection of lecture papers that were delivered at the golden jubilee of the NCAER. The papers cover a broad range of politico-socio-economic issues that are relevant to modern India.

"Examines India's economic growth at the state level"--