In the case of India, while the inhibiting role of social and cultural barriers to the development of technology has often been stressed, the paper attempts to show that the major barriers to the development of technology in the post-Independence period can be said to be substantially delved from prevailing economic policies associated with import substitution, industrial development and other major economic policy considerations. (p. 73-4)

[An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Forty-Second meeting of the
 Midwest Economic Association held at Chicago in April 1978.]