Two years after
India’s independence, Solomon Abramovich Trone, a former director of the
storied General Electric (GE) came to India and became a personal advisor on
economy to Jawaharlal Nehru, joining an extraordinary band of people who
participated in state-building after Independence. His memorandums to Nehru on
planning, a product of Trone’s extensive tour of the country, in their
observations on institutions and places provide an unlikely insight into the
early days of Independen
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