Manu Goswami is an associate professor of history at New York University and author of Producing India: From Colonial Space to National Economy (2004). She is currently writing a history of early twentieth-century internationalism.
Manu Goswami
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Writing on Public Books
The American Dream Outsourced: India and the Genre of Growth
For much of the twentieth century, the conjugation of “India” and “economic growth” invoked either despair or derision. The phrase “Hindu rate of growth”—coined by economist Raj Krishna to distinguish India’s nominal 3.5 percent average rate of growth between 1950 and the 1980s from that of the dynamic “tiger” economies, South Korea and Taiwan—captured both […]
