India’s Industrial Policy: A Reassessment brings together insights from essays written over a few decades, and traces the rudimentary evolution of an industrial policy in erstwhile Madras Presidency. The book examines specific aspects of the growth and development of industry in the region as well as the factors integral to this progress. This includes human resource development in terms of education and skill enhancement, including the role played by gender in such growth. The bringing together of historical and contemporary writings emphasizes in no uncertain terms the lack of coherence in current policies, which contain disparate components put together to constitute an industrial policy.