Articles by J C Sandesara

Seventh Plan Approach J C Sandesara UNDER the caption "The Objectives of the Seventh Plan", The Approach to the Seventh Five Year Plan, 1985-90 (AP) states that "the Seventh Plan must emphasise policies and programmes which will accelerate the growth in foodgrains production, increase employment opportunities and raise ... productivity'' (Part I, para 2)*. Elsewhere under the caption 'Conclusions', the point is made tersely: "The strategy . .. will be built on the basis of an emphasis on food, work and productivity" (Part I, para 65).

A Critique of Gutmann Method J C Sandesara The Gutmann method based on a certain manipidations of components of money supply yields negative estimates of black income in India for a fairly long recent period. Clearly, the assumptions of the method are irrelevant in the Indian context and the method is too simplistic.

Estimates of Unreported Economy in India J C Sandesara I PROPOSE to deal with Gupta and Gupta's reply1 to my comments2 on their paper3 in. two ways. I first take up their reactions to my comments, and then reiterate the significant points of my comments, which have not been attended to and finally consider the new data that have been introduced in their reply.

THE principal question this paper is addressed to is: are the production anticipations for small industry for the year 1982-83 presented in the Draft Five-Year Plan, 1978-83 (Draft Plan) attainable?1 The comment offered by way of answer is 'quick' in the sense that it is offered so soon after the Draft Plan has become available. Also, it is based principally on the statistics presented in the Draft Plan.

should have been to go through the private papers of Dufferin before reiterating the worn out tale, Ghose could at least have seen with care what R C, Majumdar ("History of the Freedom Movement in India", Calcutta, 1963, Vol I) and B B Majumdar ("Indian Political Associations and the Reform of Legislature", Calcutta, 1965) have to say to doubt the authenticity of the collaboration theory; though the best repudiation to date seems to be Anthony Parel ("Hume, Dufferin and the Origins of the Indian National Congress", Journal of Indian History, December 1964, pp 707-725). It is further remarkable that Ghose does make use of Dufferin Papers; but he does so second hand through Tara Chand, "History of the Freedom Movement in India", Vol I. That any student of the national movement could take this notoriously unreliable work seriously 15 ample testimony to his discernment; an act of commission that is matched by the equally glaring act of omission in that the most refreshing and stimulating work on the subject, A Seal, "The Emergence of Indian Nationalism", Cambridge, 1968, has not been consulted. Ghose's seems to be a quest for the line of least intellectual resistance, lor the easiest way to authorship. Hence his credulity, the cardinal sin oi a scholar.