Modern history

Concepts to cover

1. Planning Commission 1950, First Plan (agriculture, Harrod-Domar), Second Plan (Mahalanobis heavy industry), Bombay Plan 1944 as background
2. Industrial Policy Resolutions 1948 and 1956, mixed economy, public sector commanding heights
3. Air India nationalised 1953, Imperial Bank renamed State Bank of India 1955, life insurance nationalised into LIC 1956, fourteen banks 1969
4. Zamindari abolition, tenancy reform, land ceilings, Vinoba Bhave's Bhoodan 1951 and Gramdan, cooperative farming debate at Nagpur 1959
5. High-yielding varieties from the mid-1960s, Punjab, Haryana and western UP, M.S. Swaminathan and Norman Borlaug, regional and class effects