DOCKET 2 – A BUSINESS HISTORY OF

INDIA
NAME- RACHIT RATHI
ROLL NO – PGFC1925
DATE OF SUBMISSION- 4 NOV.
AIM
Audience: To be communicated to the audience size of 60 PG student of the age group of 19-
24, gender ratio is going to be 24:37

Message:
The message to be communicated would be about the business history of India and how the
business in India evolved starting from pre independence to post independence.

Intent:
The presentation is intended to help the audience better understand the development of
industrialization in India and how India has evolved from 17th century .it would also involve theories
of entrepreneurship of firm structure and capital structure.

CONTENT RESEARCH
The British financial policies had a major impact on the overall economic structure of pre-
partitioned India. On one hand the goods imported from the British empire were low in cost
whereas those with its arch rivals countries were comparatively higher prices .Citing Indian
contribution on the side of the British during world war 1 .The empire led to release of
various concessions to the domestic industries which included taking into confidence certain
big industrialists such as Tata’s, Birla’s. But in general the volume of business tilted in favour
of the British companies selling manufactured imported goods from Britain .This situation
was aggravated by high tariffs on the British manufactured goods thereby giving them an
easy access to the Indian market .With the emergence of Indian National congress, which
was socialist in nature led to a cry for protecting the local industries and to increase their
market participation which was dominated by imperial goods .post-independence the
socialist inclined Indian national congress (INC) envision a soviet style state. Economy under
which the state had an immense control over the resources of the country. The import
substituting industrialization started in 1920 to protect industries and many other
commissions were stablished that recommended that government should buy
manufactured resources as far as possible

PERSONAL/GROUP LEARNING
From this chapter, I have learned the role of industrialisation in India’s pre independence .i
also learned how economy impacted pre independence of India in 1930-1950.In this chapter
I also learned how British companies imported goods from Britain and how different policies
before India’s independence affected different industries. Since in that time India was not
industrialised and big industrialists like Tata’s and Birla’s got affected in this time. We also
learned about how textiles suffered from industrialization and privatization.
GROUP CONTRIBUTION
Rachit Rathi- I have gone through whole content and I did necessary research and also I
portrayed the whole content to the group.
Shubhangi Asthana- she recognised the whole idea about the content.
Neha Agarwal- she came up with lot of new and innovative ideas during this project.
Abhishek- He has done the compilation of the project
Hitesh Kumar- He has researched about the project and recognize the idea behind the
whole reading.
Shubhi Mittal- She has discussed about the group learnings.