Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2009
This essay seeks to explain the contribution that Indian tradition can make to development theory and to assess the possibility of evolving a “new” development in India based on some of the basic values of this tradition.
* The Indian National Congress, in which Gandhi became very influential, was founded in 1885. It was by far the most outstanding and active nationalist organization of the independence movement. The Congress Party is its postindependence successor.