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C. D. Deshmukh

Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh

1896–1982

Also known as: CD Deshmukh, C. C. Deshmukh, Chintaman Deshmukh

How C. D. Deshmukh is discussed in this archive

Authored 1 work in the archive.

Referenced in 7 other works — including IS SOCIALISM THE RIGHT PATH? , The Retreat from Socialism , and Barons of Banking - Glimpses of Indian Banking History .

In Barons of Banking - Glimpses of Indian Banking History : C.

In L.I.C. — Discounting the Assured : Bapat builds her indictment of the LIC by measuring its actual performance against the specific promises C.

In INDUSTRIAL FINANCE IN A MIXED ECONOMY : Deshmukh is named in Mehta's account of the 1944 Bretton Woods delegation — alongside Shroff, Sir Jeremy Raisman and Shanmukham Chetty — establishing the multilateral lineage Mehta traces back through Shroff.

In FOREIGN EXCHANGE CRISIS — THE WAY OUT : Sundaram recalls C.

In IS SOCIALISM THE RIGHT PATH? : Batlivala invokes C.

By C. D. Deshmukh (1)

Mentioned in (9)

Primary works (8)

  • Barons of Banking - Glimpses of Indian Banking History · 2014
    • "Sir Sorabji Pochkhanawalla, Sir Purushottamdas Thakurdas and Sir C. D. Deshmukh from the pre-Independence era" — listing of the book's six subjects; Deshmukh is one of the three pre-Independence banking barons
  • Role of Life Insurance in National Economy · 1985
  • L.I.C. — Discounting the Assured · 1979
    • "Against the promises C. D. Deshmukh made on the eve of nationalisation in 1956 — cheaper insurance, better service, higher efficiency, growth-oriented investment and employment" — sets up the evidentiary frame for the entire critique; Deshmukh's promises become the benchmark for measuring LIC's failures
  • INDUSTRIAL FINANCE IN A MIXED ECONOMY · 1972
    • "recalling Shroff's role in the Bretton Woods delegation of 1944 (led by Sir Jeremy Raisman, with Chintaman Deshmukh and Shanmukham Chetty)" — Deshmukh is named on the Bretton Woods delegation Mehta foregrounds
  • PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY · 1970
  • FOREIGN EXCHANGE CRISIS — THE WAY OUT · 1963
    • "Recalls C. D. Deshmukh as Finance Minister conceding that compilation of Budget documents is "a race against time" — a confession Sundaram says would be unacceptable in any parliament elsewhere." — Deshmukh's own admission deployed as evidence of the chronic unreliability of India's fiscal statistics
  • IS SOCIALISM THE RIGHT PATH? · 1956
    • "He marshals testimony from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and former Finance Minister C. D. Deshmukh to argue that the Indian civil service lacks the depth to run nationalised industries" — Deshmukh's Finance-Ministry experience is mobilised against nationalisation
    • "He cites Patel and ex-Finance Minister C. D. Deshmukh to show that the Indian civil service is too thin to run nationalised industries" — key-points restatement of Deshmukh's role as Batlivala's witness
  • NEW TAXATION PROPOSALS · 1956
    • "first introduced in the previous Finance Minister C. D. Deshmukh's last budget and now made heavier" — Deshmukh identified as the originator of the penal super-tax measure Krishnamachari is extending

Excerpts (1)

  • The Retreat from Socialism
    • "I am thankful to the India International Centre for having invited me to deliver the Seventh C.D. Deshmukh Memorial Lecture thus giving me an opportunity to pay my tribute to a man whom I knew well" — Deshmukh identified as the memorial subject and personal acquaintance of the speaker
    • "Sir Chintaman Deshmukh, by which title his contemporaries knew him better, was then Secretary of the Reserve Bank" — Deshmukh's career at the Reserve Bank described in the speaker's tribute