Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; Indias Export Performance in Textiles; Changing Conditions of the World Market; The Progress of Import Substitution in Textiles; Changing Structure of the Cotton Textile Industry; The Binary Structure of the Mill Sector; The 1985 Textile Policy & Its Problems; Economic Reforms & the Textile Industry; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Shuji Uchikawa is a researcher at Institute of Development Economies-Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO) in China. He has a Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru Univesity. He was a visiting faculty at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research between 2000 and 2002. He has published a number of articles on Indian economy.