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P. V. Narasimha Rao

Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao

1921–2004

Also known as: Narasimha Rao, PV Narasimha Rao, P.V. Narasimha Rao

How P. V. Narasimha Rao is discussed in this archive

Referenced in 4 other works — including IS THERE A MIDDLE WAY? , Report , and LIFE AFTER LIBERALISATION .

In Report : Raju's President's Address credits the Congress government led by Narasimha Rao with initiating India's economic U-turn in the early 1990s — positioning Rao's administration as the historical inflection point Raju's liberal-party argument builds on.

In IS THERE A MIDDLE WAY? : Mehta frames his defence of gradualist reform around Prime Minister Narasimha Rao's 'Middle Path' Davos speech, defending it against both pro-reform impatience and left-wing rejection as the appropriate sequencing after forty years of bureaucratic socialism.

In LIFE AFTER LIBERALISATION : The lecture is delivered in the immediate aftermath of the Narasimha Rao government's launch of economic reforms, treated as one of two epochal ruptures (with the Soviet collapse) defining the moment.

In Making Indian Industry Globally Competitive : Narasimha Rao is invoked as the Prime Minister whose natural instincts favour liberalisation, and as a fellow member of the same government that imposed strangulating controls before the 1991 reforms.

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Primary works (4)

  • Report · 2005
    • "He credits the Congress government led by Narasimha Rao (and its Finance Minister, now Prime Minister) with initiating the economic U-turn, and observes that successive NDA and UPA governments have continued that direction despite Left pressure." — Raju anchors his account of post-1991 liberalisation in Narasimha Rao's premiership
  • IS THERE A MIDDLE WAY? · 1995
    • "framed by Prime Minister Narasimha Rao's 'Middle Path' speech at Davos and defended against both pro-reform impatience and left-wing rejection" — Rao's Davos formulation is the political anchor for Mehta's gradualist case
    • "He defends the Narasimha Rao government's gradualist reform sequencing (the 'Middle Path' Davos speech) against both Right-Wing impatience and Left-Wing rejection" — key-points restatement of Mehta's defence of Rao's sequencing
  • LIFE AFTER LIBERALISATION · 1992
    • "the collapse of Soviet socialism and the Narasimha Rao government's launch of economic reforms" — opening framing of the lecture's historical moment
  • Regional Cooperation in South Asia · 1981

Excerpts (1)

  • Making Indian Industry Globally Competitive
    • "Mr. P. V. Narasimha Rao, our present Prime Minister, and Dr. Manmohan Singh, our present Finance Minister, were also members of the same government" — positions Narasimha Rao as a reformer constrained by earlier circumstances