Papers originally presented at a meeting held June 29 and July 1, 1993, in Calcutta, India.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine derived contents note: Introduction - Manabendu Chattopadhyay, Pradip Maiti and Mihir Rakshit -- Planning and Liberalisation in India -- Indian Planning - C Rangarajan -- Objectives, Strategy and Instrumentality -- Planning Is Dead, Long Live Planning - Kirit S Parikh -- The Role of Planning in a Liberalised Economy -- Planning, Institutions and Technical Change - Ramprasad Sengupta -- A Review of Development Planning in India -- The Import Substituting Industrialisation Model - Ashok S Guha -- Its Rationale and Limitations -- The Mahalanobis Model in Retrospect - Deb Kumar Bose -- Social Welfare, Social Deprivation and Economic Growth - Suresh D Tendulkar -- Some Reflections on the Indian Experience -- The Role of Agriculture and Employment in Indian Plans - A Vaidyanathan -- Explaining India's Industrial Growth - R Kavita Rao and Pradip Maiti -- 1951-90 -- The Current Macroeconomic Stabilisation Programme and the Indian Economy - P Balakrishnan.