With liberalisation a new phase in the country's economic agenda has begun, in Noida

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By 1995, these cars rolling out of a state of the art factory near Noida in Uttar Pradesh, symbolised one other facet of India's economic profile. Economic historians contrast this with these advertisements appearing in Indian newspapers in 1947 for bicycles. Most of which were cobbled together from imported elements. 50 years later in 1997 in these modern factories, cycles are manufactured by the thousands to be exported all over the world. A village near Hyderabad, Pochumpali is today famous worldwide for the weaves which go to make sarees that carry the unique label of it's geography. And these modern textile mills in Ahemdabad produce denim material which makes Arvind Mills the third largest producer of the denim cloth in the entire world. In some ways, the narrative of contemporary In