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020			_a9780143468493
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100			_aDadabhoy, Bakhtiar K.
245			_aHonest John : a life of John Matthai
260			_aGurugram: _bPenguin Random House, _c2025.
300			_axxiii, 396p., note., ind., 24 cm X 15 cm
500			_aRecommended by:: Rasananda Panda
520			_aSummary: John Matthai was independent India’s first railways and transport minister. Later, he was India’s second finance minister but resigned due to his differences with Pandit Nehru over the Planning Commission. Matthai served in important position in the Tatas and was a friend and confidant of J.R.D. Tata. He was chairman of the Taxation Enquiry Commission (1953), which provided a framework for the future tax policies of the government. Matthai was the first chairman of the State Bank of India of the court of governors of the Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, and of the National Book Trust. He was also the founder-president of the National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi.
650			_xeconomists India biography _xIndia Politics and government 1947 _xlawyers India biography _xMatthai, John, 1886-1959
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