Values and economic development :the Indian challenge.

Many books have been written on economic development or economic growth and author has no doubt that many more will be written in the coming years. He only excuse for venturing to place this brief volume before the book-weary public is the attempt it makes to view economic development as a problem in values and the role of the human factor in more than the economic sense during the "process of econo mic development." My attempt has been stimulated by the particular relevance of this view to the problems of demo cratic socialist development posed before my country and the desperate attempts it is making to initiate and accelerate the process of economic development within the framework of a parliamentary political democracy which is also wedded to the establishment of a socialist order. The conflict and convergence of values involved is the running thread that binds both the sections of this book, the first dealing with the problem in general and the second with the Indian problem in particular.