The Rise & Rise Of Management Education In India.

Abstract

In the caricatured black-and-white India of the 1950s, there were two groups that the young and ambitious aspired to join: the Babus (the civil service), and the Boxwalas (the covenanted officers of corporate houses). The contours of corporate India in those days were, perhaps, colonial to a large extent. The introduction of formal management education, however, started in India in the early 1960s, when a need was felt for providing managerial skills to the managers of public sector companies, who were supposed to capture the commanding heights of the economy in the era of planning. Over the years, the pace of growth of management education remained unabated.