Growth of Private Foreign Investments in India 1948-60

A study of the nature and magnitude of private investments in India is basic not only to an understanding of India's international economic relations, but also to an assessment of the relative position of Indian industrial sector vis-à-vis the foreign sector. 1 The following discussion is confined only to tracing of some of the trends in the growth of private foreign investments in India on the basis of the “available” data. The actual impact and role of private foreign investments in India is to be discussed in a larger study.
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Changes in the source of foreign capital and the forms in which they enter the country have immense relevance to any discussion on governmental policy towards foreign capital.