This book is an insightful and brisk account of the events surrounding the 1991 economic reforms programme coming to light for the first time on the eve of the silver jubilee of india’s economic liberalization.

written by an insider a key aide to the then prime minister, p.v. narasimha rao.

comes with key documents and notes, placed for the first time in the public domain; the personal papers of narasimha rao; private conversations with manmohan singh; parliament proceedings; the minutes of seminal congress meetings; and rare photographs.