To the Brink and Back: India’s 1991 Story (29 page)

CPP speech,
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discussions in Sanskrit,
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Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress,
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Ray, Siddhartha Shankar,
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Reddy, Vijaya Bhaskara,
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Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Act, 1934,
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Roy, R.K.,
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Sahu, Rajni Ranjan,
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Sen, Sukomal,
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Sengupta, Dr Arjun,
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Seventh Five-year Plan,
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Shah of Iran’s modernization programme,
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Shankaranand, B.,
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Shekhar, Chandra,
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Shukla, S.P.,
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Singh, Arjun,
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Singh, Dr Manmohan,
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24 July 1991 budget,
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devaluation of rupee,
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discussions at the IMF,
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exchange of letters with Jyoti Basu,
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as finance minister,
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gold sales,
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government’s priorities in economic policy,
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integrity of,
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joint statement controversy,
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post-budget stock-taking,
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Singh, Jaswant,
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Singh, K. Natwar,
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Singh, V.P.,
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Sinha, Yashwant,
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Sixth Five-year Plan,
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Solanki, Madhavsinh,
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Soviet Union, political developments in (1991),
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special protection group (SPG),
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State Bank of India (SBI),
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Surjeet, Harkishan Singh,
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Swamy, Dr Subramanian,
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Tata, Ratan,
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Teerth, Swami Ramanand,
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Telugu Desam Party (TDP),
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Thakur, C.P.,
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Thakurta, Paranjoy Guha,
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Thungon, P.K.,
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Tiwari, N.D.,
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Two Crucial Years: India under Shri P.V. Narasimha Rao’s Stewardship
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United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD),
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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),
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Unnikrishnan, K.P.,
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Upendra, P.,
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Vajpayee, Atal Bihari,
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Venkataraman, R.,
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Venkitaramanan, S.,
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Venugopal, K.R.,
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Verma, A.N.,
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Vikal, Ram Chandra,
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Virmani, Arvind,
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Xiaoping, Deng,
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Yadav, Chandrajeet,
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Yadav, Ram Naresh,
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Rajiv Gandhi flanked by P.V. Narasimha Rao and Madhavsinh Solanki at the release of the 1991 Lok Sabha election manifesto of the Congress on 16 April 1991. This document was extensively used by Narasimha Rao and Dr Manmohan Singh to defend economic reforms in June, July and August 1991
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A meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), under the chairmanship of P.V. Narasimha Rao on 22 May 1991, that unanimously decided to elect Sonia Gandhi as Congress president—an offer she declined a day later
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Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao with two immediate ex-prime ministers, Chandra Shekhar and V.P. Singh, on 21 June 1991
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P.V. Narasimha Rao’s first press conference as Congress president on 2 June 1991
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Dr Manmohan Singh’s press conference of 25 June 1991 that led to the flap on the roll-back of prices
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The prime minister’s meeting with opposition leaders and the finance minister’s briefing on the economy on 27 June 1991
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P.N. Dhar and three other economists issued ‘An Agenda for Economic Reform’ on 1 July 1991 that led to an uproar in Parliament subsequently. Here is P.N. Dhar with Dr Manmohan Singh and P. Chidambaram at a seminar on the statement
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The prime minister with Julius Nyerere, former president of Tanzania and chairman of the South Commission, of which Dr Manmohan Singh was secretary general between 1987 and 1990
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