Migration as Subtle Catalyst: Institution Building in India

Sapovadia, Vrajlal (2016): Migration as Subtle Catalyst: Institution Building in India.

Abstract

This research paper captures role of immigrants in building political, social, religious and economic institutes in India. Their role is in all spheres of building institutes ranging from intellectual, social, political, educational, financial and physical contribution. The institutes in which they played a role are of wide range; Indian National Congress and Constitution of India, Indian Independence Movement and many political institutes are few of them.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: India, Migrants, NRIs, Institutes, Human Development
• Subjects: B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B1 - History of Economic Thought through 1925; B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B1 - History of Economic Thought through 1925 > B15 - Historical ; Institutional ; Evolutionary; B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B2 - History of Economic Thought since 1925; F - International Economics > F0 - General

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