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    You thought Indian UPI app BHIM is a homage to Mahabharata’s Bheem? It’s actually Ambedkar

    Nalin MehtaBy Nalin MehtaSeptember 3, 2023Updated:September 6, 2023No Comments1 Min Read
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    This article was first published in The Print  September, 02, 2023

    It is not a coincidence that India named its State-run BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money) app, for easy digital financial transactions using UPI, after the Constitution-maker and visionary for Dalit rights, Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar.

    Few may remember today that Ambedkar, besides being an eminent lawyer, was also an economist. His first MA dissertation at Columbia University in 1915 focused on ‘Ancient Indian Commerce’. His second MA thesis at the London School of Economics in 1921 was entitled ‘The Problem of the Rupee: Its Origin and its Solution’. As India’s inaugural law minister, he helped establish the First Finance Commission, which delineates funding between the Central government and the states, in 1951. His economic ideas, presented to the Hilton Young Commission in 1925, contributed to the creation of the Reserve Bank of India.

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    This debate, however, was settled conclusively by the unprecedented success of UPI.

    This excerpt from ‘India’s Techade’ by Nalin Mehta has been published with permission by Westland Books. 

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    This article was first published in The Print  September, 02, 2023

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    Professor Nalin Mehta is Dean, School of Modern Media, UPES; Advisor, Global University Systems and Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University Singapore. He is an award-winning social scientist, journalist and author who has held senior leadership positions in major Indian media companies; international financing institutions like the Global Fund in Geneva, Switzerland; taught and held research positions at universities and institutions in Australia (ANU, La Trobe University), Singapore (NUS), Switzerland (International Olympic Museum) and India (IIM Bangalore, Shiv Nadar University).

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