Fifty Years of Fiscal Federalism in India: An Appraisal

It is a great honour and a privilege to be invited to deliver the Kale Memorial Lecture at the Gokhale Institute. More so for one like me, who cannot claim to be treated as an academic, having spent the better part of my life in departments of government. Over the years, lectures delivered on this occasion have come to be regarded as an opportunity for scholars to put across new ideas to a wider audience on a wide range of issues in public policy, befitting the memory of the great man to whom these lectures are dedicated. Gokhale Institute deserves to be congratulated for keeping alive the tradition of disseminating the findings of academic research through public lectures in the best traditions of the city of Pune.