Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in New Delhi, on March 13, 2020. (Photographer: T. Narayan/Bloomberg)
Nearly three-quarters of a century after Britain partitioned India effective Aug. 15, 1947, modern Indian politicians faced a challenge the country’s Founding Fathers could not have foreseen: rewriting India’s trade laws and policies. Jawaharlal Nehru, Mohandas K Gandhi, and BR Ambedkar thought laterally across multiple disciplines. Today’s leaders include shrewd technocrats with Hindu nationalist biases presiding over unconnected fi...