Synopsis National economic policy and programmes will create ripples in the sub-national economies at all times. In the post-reform period, Indian economy shows welcome changes in industrial and services sectors and worrisome problems in social sectoral development shifts. The edited book is an attempt to picturise the socio-economic developmental changes in the post-reform period in India. The book is broadly divided into two parts. Part A deals with the performance, problems and perspectives of decadal economic reforms. Part B analyses the changes, challenges and prospects of the Tamil Nadu economic development in all sectors during the above period. Apart from the contributors from different parts of India, his excellency Dr. C. Rangarajan, Prof. P.R. Brahmananda and Dr. K. Venkatasubramanian, Member of the Planning Commission have analysed critically the Indian economic dynamics. A special focus on Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s ‘India vision 2020’ is added for the benefit of young scholars. The book provides new thoughts and riders in the economic development dynamics in India. It will be of rich referral to students, researchers and policy pundits on the contemporary Indian economic challenges and on the contextual regional development of Tamil Nadu economy.