Globalisation in India

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The purpose of this paper is to identify the effects of globalisation on the development policies in India as the nation attempts to embed western style capitalist structure and technologies on to traditional way of life, and to find out how India is responding to these challenges in its drive towards economic development.

What is globalisation?

Globalisation is the shift toward a more integrated and interdependent world economy. This is largely the result of planning by politicians and business organisations to breakdown borders hampering trade to increase prosperity and interdependent thereby decreasing the chance of future wars. Globalisation is not a new concept, the potential effects of globalization, positive and negative were recognized 150 years ago by the political philosophers Marx and Engels. They did not use the word "globalisation", but their themes and concepts sound remarkably similar to our world in 2008 (Marx and Engels 1996, pp.98-137). The merging of historically distinct and separate national markets into one huge global marketplace, falling barriers to cross-border trade have made it easier to sell internationally. Also the sourcing of goods and services from locations around the globe to take advantage of national differences in the cost and quality