The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s5.1

c11.s5.1

Economic centralization or planned economy was engendered in India, says he, because of two reasons.²⁵ First, it was necessary to maintain the stores or reserves as provision against famine as well as for the standing army and the civil service. And secondly, the question of irrigation was of fundamental importance to the people and the state. An extensive agricultural policy furnished with central control was, it is said, the bed-rock of state-economics.