The SSI, which was supposed to ensure that poorer Indians had industrial sectors and activities reserved for them, turned out to be a miserable failure.
India’s first-ever prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru famously believed that manufacturing its own railway components, airplanes and guns was central to maintaining the country’s hard-fought political independence. Speaking shortly after independence, he summed up his country’s approach to trade
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