Prof David C Engerman : What Was Indian Planning?

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Talk on the International History of Nehruvian Planning by Prof. David Engerman tomorrow, i.e. 14 October 2014 at 3:00 pm at CPR

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

To

Me

Today at 11:47 AM

Dear Friends:

The Centre for Policy Research is delighted to invite you to a talk by

Prof David C Engerman

Professor, Brandeis University

on

What Was Indian Planning?

Observations from the International History of Nehruvian Planning

Date: Tuesday, 14 October 2014

Time: 3:00 pm

Venue: Committee Room, Centre for Policy Research

Bopgraphical Note:

David C. Engerman is a professor of history at Brandeis University, where he has taught international history and modern American history since receiving his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1998. Building on his earlier scholarship on American programs of development aid in the “Third World,” he is currently conducting research on American and Soviet aid to India in the 1950s and 1960s. A revised version of Engerman’s Berkeley dissertation was published as Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development (Harvard University Press, 2003); it won the Stuart Bernath and Akira Iriye Prizes and was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. He has also published Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America’s Soviet Experts (Oxford University Press, 2009), written the foreword for a new edition of The God That Failed (Columbia Un iversity Press, 2001), and coe dited two collections of essays on modernization and development programs. Engerman was named a Top Young Historian by the History News Network and was awarded the Stuart L. Bernath Lecture Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

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