Chandavarkar, Anand

Modern India's pioneer economic adviser - 2007 - p.65-68. - 22 Dec

India is the unique domain of the economic adviser, which goes back to the legendary Kautilya, minister to Chandragupta Maurya. The pioneer economic adviser of modern India, however, was a little known American economist Ralph Whitenack, who served with distinction the Gaekwar of Baroda, Sayajirao III during 1906-09 and 1918-19 and was the prime architect of the Bank of Baroda. This article reviews his work in Baroda and its contemporary lessons. - Reproduced.


Economics