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A.D. Shroff :

Dalal, Sucheta.

A.D. Shroff : titan of finance and free enterprise / - New Delhi ; New York, NY : Viking, c2000. - xi, 158 p. :

Includes bibliographical references (p. [154]) and index.

Biography of Ardeshir Darabshaw Shroff, 1899-1965, industrialist, banker, and economist. Eminent Industrialist, Banker And Economist, Is Considered One Of The Architects Of Free India S Industrial Development And Modernization. Among The Earliest Exponents Of Free Enterprise In India, Shroff, Once Called A Congress Economist , Represented The Country As A Non-Official Delegate At The 1944 Bretton Woods Conference And Was An Author Of The Bombay Plan, Prepared By Eight Leading Industrialists In 1944 As A Blueprint For India S Post-War Economy. Later, In The Fifties, As Founder-Director Of The Investment Corporation Of India, Chairman Of Bank Of India And The New India Assurance Company, And Director Of Tatas And Many Other Leading Companies, He Became A Powerful Spokesman For Private Industry In An Increasingly Government Regulated Economy. His Steadfast Adherence To A Vision Of Free Enterprise In India Has Been Vindicated Thirty-Five Years Later By The Liberalization Policies Pursued In The Nineties.

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Industrialists
Philanthropists
Finance - free enterprise

HC432.5.S49 / D35 2000

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