India and Ja: dimensions of their relations, economic and cultural

Comprehensive and rich in details, this is the first work of its kind to provide a complete picture of Indo-Japanese economic relations. It also covers the cultural dimension of this bilateral relationship in the last chapter. The book is encyclopaedic in vision, and gives myriads of details which enrich our knowledge of the subject in a manner in which no other book does. From a description of how industrialisation in India and Japan began in the mid-19th century with the Bombay and Kagoshima textile factories, and Yawata and Sakchi steel mills, the author moves along giving glimpses of early attempts to set up a joint shipping line to stimulate Indo-Japanese trade, similarities in the economic policies pursued by India and Japan in the immediate post-World War II years, volume and compo sition of Indo-Japanese trade, the rise and fall of commodities in that trade, the role of iron ore trade in inducing India's infrastructural development, Japanese investment in India and technology collaborations in electronics and automobiles, Japanese assistance in agri culture, the small sector, and health and welfare, and closes the chapters on economic matters with an analysis of Japanese ODA assistance to India, its quantum, terms, and utilization in strengthening the fertilizer, power and telecommunications sector. The volume triumphantly ends with a succinct account of cultural relations between India and Japan. Together with two other books which he wrote in 1986, the author has successfully charted the course which Indo-Japanese relations has followed from the mid-19th century to the present.