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LOST GLORY
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Lost Glory
India’s Capitalism Story
SUMIT K. MAJUMDAR
University of Texas at Dallas
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Preface
viii Preface
economy. She is a paradox of entrepreneurial dynamism versus low-level
economic attainments. She is the trope of poverty among plenty. Her collection
of dynamic capitalists responds with alacrity to incentives. They have invested
substantial sums in her over the last generation.¹ She has the world’s largest
pool of energetic humanity supporting capitalism. Her economy generates an
income very large in absolute size. She has world scale. But she is not world
class. Her extremely low per-person income rank is obdurately stagnant. Why?
This enigma about India remains persistent.
In the last three decades, world order has been changing. For India, trend
reversal is underway. India is catching up, albeit glacially. India’s growth has
been a reason for such relative standing change. Growth is fundamental.
Continuously higher economic growth steadily leads to high world rankings.
Shared high growth outcomes enhance financial well-being and human exist-
ence quality. Where does sustainable growth come from? Growth is the
outcome of the dynamics of capitalism, principally predicated on an industri-
alization process driven by entrepreneurial urges.² Capitalism is how capital is
organized, managed, and utilized. Capital and its proper utilization lead to
growth. The capitalist process is driven by productive efficiency,³ the pivot
around which growth revolves. The nature of capitalism directly impacts
growth and life quality. Every society experiments with different capitalism
models. Understanding growth requires appreciating the unique industrial
capitalism story for an economy.
Capitalism is key. In this story of India’s economy, I narrate the outcomes of
India’s postindependence capitalism experiments. I focus on efficiency, and its
materiality, as a performance enhancer. Using the late Harvey Leibenstein’s
definition of efficiency,⁴ as attaining actually feasible performance levels,
I evaluate India’s efficiency patterns to consider whether these have been
consistent with her possibly regaining world economic standing, and recoup-
ing her image as a Temple of Mahalakshmi; and if productive efficiency has
mattered for India’s growth. These issues are crucial. I focus first on overall
productive efficiency outcomes for an almost seventy-year period, as the key
results from India’s capitalism experiments.
Organization plays a key role in capitalism and industrialization phe-
nomena. Organizational forms represent capitalism’s administrative structur-
ing modes. Organizational form variations impact productive efficiency.
I thereafter analyze organizational form and efficiency relationships, for a
period of over four decades, to deconstruct organizational dimension outcomes
from India’s capitalism experiments. These analyses, of India’s organizational
contingencies, are unique. However, I leave out discussions on many topics,
such as administered pricing, agriculture, demography, fiscal policy, gender
Preface ix
equality, income distribution, information technology, labor markets, outsour-
cing, natural resources, and services. All these factors, directly and indirectly,
impact the nature of offerings made to and the benefactions emanating from
the Temple of Mahalakshmi.
I use the crores (10 million) measure in dealing with numerical quantities.
The word Government, in capitals, signifies the political agency for India’s
governance, rather than the political concept. The word State, in capitals and
not italics, refers to the abstract intellectual political concept; the word State, in
capitals and italics, refers to the administrative agency for India’s policy making
and governance. I have also used old city names, such as Bombay, if relevant.
I gratefully acknowledge much help in producing this book, and privileged
associations with several knowledgeable persons. I have benefited from nu-
merous India-related conversations with V. Balachandran, R. B. Barman,
D. M. Blake, S. Gupta, R. Jha, J. G. Kanga, V. L. Kelkar, A. Lahiri, S. Mullick,
G. Owen, S. Ramamoorthi, D. Sakhuja, I. Sanyal, K. Sen, and A. Shinde. Drs.
A. K. Bagchi, R. Deb, V. Jacob, M. J. Leaf, P. Lewin, A. K. Nag, and D. N. Prasad,
as well as P. Baijal, A. Banerji, L. Mansingh, K. V. Seshadri, A. Sonde, and
K. Venugopal were insightful manuscript commentators. At Maruti Suzuki
India Limited, I met numerous managers who were generously forthcoming
about their company’s operations, and special recognitions are due to
R. C. Bhargava, S. Ramani, and P. K. Roy for their many acts of kindness.
I recognize anonymous referees for their important comments. Many com-
mendations are due to my editors at Oxford University Press, Ms. C. Kennedy,
and D. Musson and A. Swallow, for their cheerful forbearance and project
support. Our administrative specialists, Mrs. Aylin Calisir and Mrs. Marjorie
Wu, deserve singular approbation for their innumerable best quality support
acts over many years. To all, many grateful thanks!
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Contents
1. Prologue 1
India’s World Position 1
Change 2
Recovery in India’s Position 5
The Growth and Importance of Capital 9
India’s Capitalism Experiments 15
Book Structure 18
2. Capital and Capitalism 21
Introduction 21
Capital 21
Organizing Contemporary Capitalism 26
State Role 29
National Industrial Development 36
Industrial Strategy 39
Industrial Strategy in India 42
3. History and Background 45
Historical Background 45
Industrial Policy in the First Part of the Twentieth Century 49
Nationalism and Industrialization in the Early Twentieth Century 56
The Bombay Plan and Government and Business Symbiosis 59
Creating National Industrial Capabilities 67
Getting on with It 69
4. India’s Growth Story 71
Introduction 71
The Changing Composition of India’s Economy 71
Economy Composition by Decade 73
Assessing India’s Growth Patterns from Two Generations Ago 76
Assessing India’s Later Historical Growth Patterns 85
Institutional Disruption and Growth from the 1990s Onward 98
Deinstitutionalization and Deindustrialization in the 2010s 103
5. India’s Mixed Economy Experiments 110
The Historical Structure of India’s Economy 110
State Involvement in the Mauryan Age as Precursor to Modernity 113
History of State Involvement in Modern India 114
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xii Contents
State Involvement before Independence 116
State Involvement after Independence 118
Outcomes of State Involvement in India’s Economy 122
Public Opinion and Reactions to State Involvement 125
State Involvement in a Management Experiment 130
Privatization and Current State Involvement Status 135
The Molecular Economy 138
6. Productive Efficiency Analysis over Six Decades 144
Efficiency Matters 144
Productive Efficiency Calculations 145
Employment Patterns over Six Decades 148
Capital Inputs and Output Patterns over Six Decades 151
India’s Technology Profile over Six Decades 155
Productivity Patterns over Six Decades 163
Assessing Productive Efficiency Dynamics 167
Assessing Latent Attitudes towards Industrial Resources 171
Waste and Inefficiency Estimates 175
Concluding Remarks 182
7. Productive Efficiency and Growth 185
The Efficiency–Growth Relationship 185
Inefficiency and Lost Growth 192
Early Conclusions on India’s Industrialization Experiment 195
Determinants of Productive Efficiency 197
What Impacts Productive Efficiency? 203
8. Organization Type and Productive Efficiency 207
Calculations Framework 207
Industrial Stucture Patterns over Four Decades 208
Inputs Consumption Patterns over Four Decades 211
Organization Type and Industrial Performance 215
Waste and Inefficiency Estimates by Organization Type 220
Maruti Suzuki Case Study 223
Concluding Remarks 233
9. Final Thoughts 237
India’s Challenge 237
Evidence from Capitalism Experiments 239
Outcomes of Industrial Organization Experiments 247
An Administrative Reform 252
A Structural Reform 255
A Behavioral Reform 259
Appendices 263
References 275
Index 297
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List of Figures
List of Tables
3.1 CSIR units and Ministry of Natural Resources and Scientific Research
agencies in 1954 69
4.1 Sectoral composition of the Indian economy over the past six decades 72
4.2 Annual changes in the past six decades in sectoral composition of the
Indian economy 74
4.3 India’s annual growth rates from 1950–51 to 2013–14 77
4.4 A comparison of growth rates per decade relative to previous decade 90
5.1 State-owned firms and organizations in 1954 under the Ministry of
Production 122
6.1 Average values and growth of human capital inputs over the past
six decades 149
6.2 Average values and growth of capital inputs and outputs over the past
six decades 152
6.3 Capital intensity patterns in Indian industry over the past six decades 157
6.4 Relative resource investment strategy patterns in Indian industry over
the past six decades 160
6.5 Statistics of basic industrial performance measures over the past six decades 164
6.6 Statistics of industrial productive efficiency measures over the past
six decades 165
6.7 Percentage of attention paid to different industrial resources over the past
six decades 172
6.8 Percentage waste of resources in industry inputs and outputs over the past
six decades 176
6.9 Quantities of wasted industrial sector resources over the past six decades 180
7.1 Efficiency and national income and per-capita national income growth,
1951–52 to 2013–14 187
7.2 Efficiency and national income growth from 1951–52 to 2013–14 188
7.3 Efficiency and per-capita national income growth from 1951–52
to 2013–14 191
7.4 Evaluation of the impact of industrial performance on GNP growth 192
7.5 Evaluation of the impact of industrial performance on per-capita GNP
growth 194
7.6 Determinants of Indian industrial efficiency from 1950–51 to 2013–14 204
8.1 Proportion of factories and outputs by organizational category 209
8.2 Proportion of inputs by organizational category over four decades 212
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List of Boxes
List of Appendices
The tops of the juniperus sabina when powdered and given to dogs
produce violent colic, vomiting, bloody fæces and urine, spasms,
paralysis, and death, with lesions of gastro-intestinal and uro-genital
inflammation. In cattle and sheep they caused tympany, anorexia,
colic, hyperthermia, and constipation followed by a bloody diarrhœa.
Horses took 4, 8 and even 12 ozs. twice daily for eight days without
any ill effect (Sick).
Treatment. Evacuate the stomach and give demulcents.
OTHER VEGETABLE IRRITANTS.
List of gastro-intestinal irritants. Common Symptoms. General treatment:
emesis, stomach pump, diluents, demulcents, laxatives, enemata, anodynes,
antiseptics, tannic acid. Prevention.
Among vegetables which produce more or less disturbance of the
digestion, or congestion of the digestive organs Cadeac names the
following: Acorns in horses (Morton); tares; bird’s trefoil (lotus
corniculatus, Colin); vetches at ripening (Gerlach); laburnum
(cytissus) horse and ox (Cornevin); hybrid and sweet trefoil
(Pilz); officinal melilot (Carrey); the field poppy, digitalis and
snapdragon often mixed with wheat and rye (Cornevin); conium
maculatum, cicuta virosa, yew leaves, lolium temulentum,
and other forms of ryegrass when ripening; chickweed
(stellaria) killed 60 horses in 200 (Semmer); clematis, aconite,
tobacco, male fern, aloes, horsetail (equisetum) when full of
silica; mercurialis annua, wild radish, resinous plants,
potato tops, potatoes in excess, or green from exposure to the
sun; Œnanthe Crocata (water dropwort); giant fennel,
anemone, phytolacca (poke root); buckwheat in flower
(Moisant); St. John’s wort, various species of lathyrus,
rhododendron, artichokes in excess, spurry seeds, galega,
bryony, the fruit of melia azedarach (in pigs) (Dreux); nux
vomica, podophyllum.
It may be added that the plants credited with causing the “loco”
disease (Astragalus mollissimus, Hornii, and lentiginosus, the
oxytropis Lambertii, mutifloris and deflexa) cause diarrhœa
and sometimes ulceration of the intestines.
The farina of mustard is sometimes mixed with linseed cake and
(developing the active principles of that agent) produces a severe or
even fatal gastro-enteritis in cattle and sheep. The wild mustard of
the fields, being allowed to grow with the flax, or rape, the seeds
mingle when harvested and thus the cake comes to contain an
injurious quantity of the mustard.
Symptoms. These will vary much according to the predominating
action of the individual poison on other organs, but when they
irritate the gastro-intestinal mucosa they have this in common, that
they impair appetite and rumination, produce colicy pains (perhaps
salivation and vomiting), and constipation or diarrhœa of varying
intensity.
Treatment. Apart from the individual treatment demanded by the
special symptoms of disorder of other organs, it may follow the same
general line for all: Unload the stomach by tepid water, ipecacuan,
with tickling of the soft palate, or by the stomach pump or tube, and
follow this by abundance of mucilaginous drinks. In cases attended
by constipation a laxative of Glauber salts, or aloes may be
demanded, or assiduous mucilaginous injections. With an excess of
irritation anodynes may be indicated. When there is tympany and
fœtor of the discharges these must be met by non-irritant antiseptics,
such as naphthalin or salol. For many of the vegetable poisons tannic
acid proves advantageous, being at once an antiferment, and fitted to
unite with organic alkaloids, rendering them less soluble and
otherwise often changing their properties.
Prevention should be sought by removing all such poisonous
plants from pastures, or land used for raising fodder crops.
POISONING BY CANTHARIDES AND OTHER
INSECTS.
Poisons in spoiled food: Moulds, rust, smut, bacteria, toxins. Action of moulds
on rabbits, on alimentary and nervous systems. Smuts, ergots and their congeners.
Tetanizing and paralyzing products. Duration of symptoms.
Prominent symptoms, asthenia and vertigo. Vary with cryptogam, merge into
zymotic diseases. Causes: grain harvested damp and moulded, bluish or greenish,
hay greenish white, brown or black, clover reddish, musty fodder, and diuresis,
indigestion, gastric intestinal and systemic paresis, somnolence, delirium. Rusts,
spring and summer, their evolution. Bunt, smut, produce fever and paralysis,
spasms, abortions and dry gangrene, buccal erosions; evolution of ergot, honey
dew on leguminous plants causing skin disease, bacterial ferments, diplococcus,
streptococcus from foul water, causing enteritis. Symptoms: adynamic, dullness,
blunted sense, pendent head, ears, eyelids, congested, yellow, ecchymosed
conjunctiva, fever, tympany, colic, constipation, dung small, round, coated masses,
vertigo, sometimes fatal diarrhœa, or colliquative diuresis; vertiginous: fever,
anorexia, yellow mucosæ, tardy breathing, costiveness colics, stupor, somnolence,
giddiness, heavy steps, stumbling, delirium, push head against wall, clinch jaws,
grind teeth, make walking or trotting or plunging motions, or pull on halter and
fall, amaurosis, paralysis, coma. Remissions. Death in one day or upward.
Resumption of functions and recovery. Diagnosis: from meningo-encephalitis.
Lesions: gastro-intestinal congestion, infiltration, ecchymosis, fermenting ingesta,
congestion of mesenteric glands, liver, brain and meninges. Leucin and tyrosin in
urine. Treatment: stomach pump, antiferments, potassium iodide, purgatives,
enemata; for brain, bleeding, sedatives, ice, snow, elevation, derivatives, prevent
mechanical injury.