Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction Foreign Aid and Development Politics in India 1
4. PART I: Learning Development, 1947–1955
5. Debating Development and Discovering India 21
6. Inventing Development Aid 51
7. PART II. The Heyday of the Economic Cold War, 1955–1966
8. The Geopolitics of Economic Expertise 89
9. The Aid Project and Cold War Competition 117
10. “Free Money” and the Tilt Toward the West 159
11. Military Supply and the Vicissitudes of Aid Politics 191
12. PART III: The Bitter Fruits of Development Politics, 1960–1974
13. Bets, Bargains, and the Price of American Aid 227
14. Soviet Aid from Inspiration to Armory 273
15. India’s Double Crisis and the Price of Aid 303
16. Conclusion: Development Politics and the Price of Aid 347
17. Note on sources 361
18. Abbreviations 373
19. Notes 379
20. Acknowledgments 481
21. Index 485