Globalization of Foreign Direct Investment in India:

1900s–2000

Dr. Amar KJR Nayak♣

Abstract

The paper focuses on the evolution of the liberalized economy in India and the
globalized structure of FDI in India during the last century, 1900s-2000. Based on the
major milestones in the history of FDI in India, the paper provides a systematic
periodization of the history of FDI in India. Through this periodization, the paper
presents the processes and dynamics of globalization process of foreign direct investment
in India. The study reveals that today’s liberalized economy and globalized structure of
FDI in India have been an outcome of the adjustment and alignment process of the Indian
Government to the dynamics of the various domestic and international pressures and
global competition since the 1900s, and it is not merely a phenomenon of post 1991 as
popularly perceived. The rapid change and development in FDI Policies in India in the
post 1991 are only the manifestation of the change processes of the past and the
enhancement of the changes adopted in the past.

♣ Dr. Amar KJR Nayak is an Associate Professor at the Xavier Institute of Management,
Bhubaneswar. Orissa. India.
Globalization of Foreign Direct Investment in India:
1900s–2000

India has been a host to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) for over a hundred years
now. However, it has drawn special attention in the one and half last decades and
Globalization in India has been seen as a phenomenon of post Industrial Licensing Policy
of India, 1991. Despite the long history of FDI in India, the literature on FDI in India
does not fully explain the processes and the dynamics by which the present ‘Liberalized
Economy’ and ‘Globalized Structure’ of FDI in India has evolved.

The main focus of my research is to explain the process by which the present
‘Liberalized Economy’ and ‘Globalized Structure’ of FDI in India has evolved. By
Liberalized Economy, I mean the extent to which the Government of India has permitted
free hand to the foreign companies in choosing the type of FDI and the level of foreign
ownership in their Indian operations. From a British controlled economy, India adopted a
mixed policy of state run firms and private firms and later moved to more of a market-
controlled economy.

By Globalized Structure of FDI, I mean the extent to which FDI in India has
been globally represented. U.K. has been the dominant investor in India during 1900s to
1960s. Japan became a major trading partner during 1919 to 1941. USA and Germany
became major investors during 1960s to 1980s. However, in the last two decades, the
distribution of FDI has significantly increased from countries from European Union and
Asia and Oceania making the present distribution of FDI highly globalized.

The study reveals that today’s liberalized economy and globalized structure of
FDI in India have been an outcome of the adjustment and alignment process of the Indian
Government to the dynamics of the various domestic and international pressures and
global competition since the 1900s, and it is not merely a phenomenon of post 1991 as
popularly perceived. The rapid change and development in FDI Policies in India in the

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post 1991 are only the manifestation of the change processes of the past and the
enhancement of the changes adopted in the past.

This paper has been presented in five sections, viz., Research Methodology,
Literature Review on FDI in India, Period Studies consisting of six periods viz., 1900s-
1918, 1919-1942, 1943-1961, 1962-1977, 1978-1990, and 1991-2000, Summary and
Conclusion.

I. Research Methodology

This study of history of FDI in India primarily relies on an empirical study of the
developments of FDI in India during 1900s to 2000. The FDI data for this paper has been
collated and triangulated from various University Archives, Company Archives, Public
Libraries, and National Archive in India and Japan to validate the data. The sources
included secondary data, published reports of British Government in India prior to 1947,
Government of India (GOI), Government of USA, Government of UK, Government of
Japan, and a few foreign companies. These secondary data were supplemented and
updated with unpublished data from GOI and a few foreign companies in India. The
study also involved the interviews of senior executives from various foreign companies in
India and a few officials from the Government of India.

II. Literature Review

Foreign Direct Investment1 (FDI) in India can be traced back to early 1900s.
However, despite such a long history, literature on FDI in India is limited in data on FDI
and scope of previous studies. First, there are a number of discontinuities in data on FDI

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Investments from foreign sources usually fall in two categories viz., Foreign Direct Investment and
Portfolio Investments. Reserve Bank of India guidelines also classifies foreign investments into three types
viz., (1) Foreign Direct Investment, (2) Portfolio Investment, and (3) Issue of Global Depository Receipt
(GDR) are the Euro Issues by Indian Companies. Our study primarily focuses on FDI. However, in the pre-
colonial period there is no clear distinction between FDI and Portfolio investment and the Euro Issues are
only a development of the last few years in the 1990s (Krishnan, 2003)

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to India during the last hundred years. Barring a few time zones like 1948-61, 1971-78
and 1991 onwards, the existing literature has not documented the complete history of FDI
in India. More often than not, data in one secondary source do not match with that of
another source.

Second, the scope of different studies on FDI in India has been limited. Most of
the existing studies on FDI to India have either focused on the amount of flow of FDI to
India or focused on the impact of FDI to India. Recent literature on FDI focuses on flow
of FDI to India since 1991 and its impact on the Indian economy. Some studies have
discussed the impact of FDI in India during the period 1948-61 (Kidron, 1965, and
Kurian, 1966). The study of Wilkins (1994) indicated that the flow of FDI to India during
the period 1921-29. There is another study that estimated the flow of FDI to India during
1971-78 (Athreye and Kapur, 1999).

There have been a few studies that have dealt with the performance of foreign
firms in India. It is argued that British firms in India succeeded in the early decades of the
twentieth century because of their nexus within the British Government in India (Bagchi,
1972). Another study argued that British firms failed in the post 19472 period because of
their short-term operational structures that they had created in the pre 1947 period
(Tomlinson, 1989). It has also been argued that foreign firms failed in India because of
the nexus of local firms, local financial institutions and Government of India
(Encarnation, 1989). In these studies both success and failure of foreign firms in India has
been attributed to the local Government.

There is a general notion that the inward FDI to India started after the Industrial
Liberalization Policy, 1991. Further, the huge influx of inward FDI to India has been
attributed to the above policy of 1991. It appears as if the dynamism of inward FDI has
been planned and implemented by the Government of India and the role of foreign
multinational companies, foreign governments and international agencies had hardly been

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In the year 1947, India became independent of the colonial rule of British Government. The regulatory
framework of India changed when it moved form being a colonial state to being an independent state.

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explained. In short, we find that the existing literature on FDI in India falls short of
providing a comprehensive understanding of the nature and the context of FDI in India. It
is in this context that the need to study the history of FDI in India arises. The character
and content of FDI in India and how India as a host country have evolved during the
twentieth century is the focus of this paper.

III. Period Studies: FDI in India, 1900s-2000

Each of the period studies focuses on three issues viz., overall socio-economic
and political situation in India, industrial policy and FDI policy in the country and nature
and pattern of direct investments by foreign firms in India.

FDI in India, 1900s-1918

India was an agricultural based economy during this period. People in the
country largely depended on agriculture. The main commercial crops produced during
this time were cotton, tea, and jute. The domestic business had begun in some measure as
the number of joint stock companies increased from 1550 in the year 1904-05 to 2668 in
the year 1917-1918 (Department of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics, India, Report
on Joint Stock Companies, 1924). India was a colony of United Kingdom during this
period and India was rather a stable colony with abundant natural and mineral resources.

There was no specific industrial policy in the country then. India largely severed
the natural resource requirement of the British Government and British companies. On
the policy of FDI in India, there was little barrier to foreign investments in India during
this period as was the case in the rest of the world. The global environment was most
deregulated as far as foreign trade and investment was concerned during the period
before the end of the First World War that is 1918 (Jones, 1996).

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 The United Kingdom dominated the foreign trade and investment in India during
this time. A rough estimate shows that about 14% of British investments came to India
and other Asian countries during 1865-1914 (Bagchi, 1972). India ranked eighth as a host
to foreign investments in 1914 (Wilkins, 1994). There were about 204 British Managing
Agents and a few manufacturing companies from U.K, Switzerland, Netherlands,
Germany, USA, and Japan engaged in trading and manufacturing activities during this
period.

The Managing agents were very large and they had business interest in large
number of businesses. Many of these Managing Agents held as many as 15-20 different
types of companies engaged in tea, jute, sugar and coal. Besides their interests in tea, jute,
and coal, the Managing Agents had interests in many other businesses like timber, paper,
insurance, shipping, indigo, and sugar (Bagchi, 1972). Japanese trading firms had also
made some investments in India during this period. Please refer to Table A1 in Appendix
for the list of British Managing Agents in India during this period. Mitsui Bussan had set-
up a trading office in Bombay in 1892 and subsequently many Japanese companies
started trading on raw cotton and yarn with India in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries3.

There were about 11 manufacturing companies from UK, Europe, USA and
Japan that traded their products in India. Many of the British manufacturing companies
like Unilever, ITC, Glaxo, ICI, GEC, Goodlass Nerolac, and Britania Biscuits traded their
goods in India by importing form their parent companies. American companies like
Chicago Pneumatics and Ludlow Jute, the Dutch company, Margarine Unie and the
Japanese company, Denso operated in India during this period. Please refer to Table A2,

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Tetsuya Kuwahara (Seminar discussions, 2000) and Manuscript of Mitsui Bussan Kaisha 100 years,
volume 1, 1978 (unpublished) provide details about the historical roots of Japanese business in India in the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Mitsui Bussan sent Mr. Yasukawa to India in December 1892,
and soon after it set up a purchase office in Bombay in February 1893. Similarly, Nihon Menka set up its
office in India in 1893. Gosho was another large trading house that set up its office in India. Besides, these
three major trading houses, many smaller trading houses like Itochu, Marubeni, and many others started
trading on raw cotton and yarn with India.

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Table A3 and Table A4 in Appendix for a sample list of foreign companies from
different countries that came to India during this period.

In summary, there were virtually no restrictions on FDI during this period.

However, until the end of First World War, 1918, the foreign investment in India was
totally dominated by the British companies. India was also being ruled by Britain during
this period. Trading and Services sectors were the major areas of foreign investments in
India during this period.

FDI in India, 1919-1942

United Kingdom appeared vulnerable by the end of the World War I in 1918 and
a new phase in the history of FDI in India came about beginning 1919. The United States
of America and Japan emerged as powerful nations after the World War-I (E.H Carr,
1994). Under the pressure of Indians to share power, the British Government enacted the
Government of India Act 19194, whereby Indians had greater say in the governance of
India. With the weakening of U.K. and the emergence of alternate world powers, the
freedom movement in India got further support from the world community. These
political developments had some amount of bearing on the pattern of foreign investments
in India from 1919 onwards. Following the Government of India Act, 1919 that allowed
Indian legislator to share power with British officials, Rowlatt Act5 came into force in

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The means of achieving the proposed measure were later enshrined in the Government of India Act of
1919, which introduced the principle of a dual mode of administration, or dyarchy, in which both elected
Indian legislators and appointed British officials shared power. The act also expanded the central and
provincial legislatures and widened the franchise considerably. Dyarchy set in motion certain real changes
at the provincial level. A number of non controversial or "transferred" portfolios such as agriculture, local
government, health, education, and public works were handed over to Indians, while more sensitive matters
such as finance, taxation, and maintaining law and order were retained by the provincial British
administrators (Sarkar, 1983, and Chandra, 1989)
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Rowlatt Act, 1919 made war time restrictions on civil rights permanent through a system of special courts
and detention without trial for a maximum of two years. Through this Act anyone in India could be arrested
on a simple pretext (Sarkar, 1983, and Chandra, 1989).

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India. M.K. Gandhi6, for the first time applied his non-violent movement on a national
scale in India to resists this legislation of the British Government. There were many small
and large mass scale uprising and resistance to British rule in India during this period.
The local manufacturing companies were also on the rise. The number of registered
manufacturing companies grew from 111 in the year 1923 to 365 by the year 1940
(Department of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics, India, Report on Joint Stock
Companies, 1929, 1931, 1939, 1941, and 1951).

Trade and investment from the USA increased in India during this period.
Among the American companies, the most notable ones that started their operation in
India during this period are General Motors, Ford Motors, and Colgate Palmolive.
General Motors started assembling passenger cars in Bombay in 1928. Soon after that
Ford Motors also started its assembling unit in Madras in 1930 and then a year later, in
1931 it started assembly units in Bombay and Calcutta. Colgate-Palmolive started its
toothpaste business in India in the year 1937.

Trade investments from Japan also increased manifold during this period. By
1928, Japan emerged as one of the largest cotton tradeing partner of India. Since the
Japanese products were better in quality and competitive in price7, the Japanese textile
companies outperformed the British textile companies in India. Japan exported more
than half (57 %) of its cotton yarn and 28% of its piece goods to India in 1932. It also
imported as much as 47% of its raw cotton requirement from India in 1928, the volume
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who spearheaded the freedom movement in India, was a barrister by
profession. He returned to India from South Africa in the year 1914 and started the Satyagraha Movement,
a non-violent resistance to British rule in India. He first tried this form of resistance to different types of
rent seeking of British Government in Champaran, Kheda and Ahmedabad in Gujurat. His first nation-wide
resistance to British Policy was in 1919 against the Rowlatt Act. Later in 1930, he called upon the general
public on a large scale to participate in a march to Dandi in India to break the salt law of the British
Government. As per the rules of the British Government, Indians were not allowed to make salt with out
the permission of the British Government. He undertook many such movements to free India from the
British Rule. Quit India Movement in 1942 was another of his mass scale movements that culminated in
India becoming an independent state (Sarkar, 1983, and Chandra, 1989).
7 Tetsuya Kuwahara (2000) discusses in detail in the Case Study of Kanegafuchi Cotton Spinning Company

and the role Sanji Muto played in building high productivity and efficiency of Japanese textile spinning
companies. Kuwahara mentions how the improvement in quality and productivity of Kanegafuchi Cotton
Spinning Company had a great influence in the overall development of international competitiveness of
Japanese textile and textile related companies in the early 1900s.

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increased to more than half (51%) in 1937. Please refer to Table A5 and Table A6 in
Appendix for details of the volumes of trade in different items during this period.

Nonetheless, British business interests remained as strong as ever. India was still
a hot spot for investments by British companies during this period. Between 1930 and
1945, as many as 28 new manufacturing British subsidiaries started their operations in
India, Tomlinson (1975). With the continued interest of British investments and the
additional interest of American, Japanese and other European countries, the total inward
stock of foreign direct investment was about 1.0 billion USD by 1929. India ranked third
among the favorable hosts to foreign direct investments in 1929, Wilkins (1994).

Further, under local and international pressures, the British Government in India,
passed the Government of India Act, 19358. This Act allowed the Indian legislators to
voice their concern and to lobby on behalf of Indian businesses. The local businessmen
and politicians strongly pushed the British Government in India to introduce import
duties9 on goods imported to India in order to protect the local industries. This seems to
have activated the foreign companies to make direct investments in manufacturing their
products in India. As many as 30 foreign companies registered in India during this period
as compared to only 7 during the previous period, 1901-1918 (Centre for Monitoring
Indian Economy, September 2003).

Many of the British and Dutch companies that were engaged in trading activities
started to invest in local manufacturing in the 1930s. For example, Unilever invested
heavily in local manufacturing of bathing soaps, washing soaps, and cooking oil/fat.
Hindustan Vanaspati Manufacturing Company started manufacturing vanaspati (a

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The Congress Party and Muslim Parties were allowed to contest provincial elections and more people
could participate in the electoral process. British Government retained the central powers. However, the
sharing of power at the provincial level by both appointed officials of British Government and Indian
legislators as per Government of India Act 1919 was done away with. The Indian legislators fully
represented their respective provinces.
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D.K. Fieldhouse (1972) has discussed the local government introduction of high import duties on foreign
goods during the 1930s. The British Government in India was highly pressurized by the Indian
parliamentarians to provide protection to the local entrepreneurs during this period B.R. Tomlinson (1989)
and A.K Bagchi (1972) also highlight the issue of duties on imported goods to India.

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hydrogenated cooking oil) in 1932 at Sewri, Bombay. Later, Lever Brothers India started
soap manufacturing at Sewri, Bombay in 1934. Metal Box started to manufacture tin
containers in 1934. ICI commenced its manufacturing activities in 1939 by setting up
Alkali and Chemical Corporation of India Limited in Rishra, West Bengal. In 1935, J & P
Coats (Hunter, 1969) began to invest in local manufacturing under the name Acme
Thread Company Limited. And, Dunlop started its tire manufacturing in the year 1936. In
fact, the FDI in the Indian manufacturing industries started in the true sense during this
period. Please refer to Table A2, Table A3 and Table A4 in Appendix for a sample list
of foreign companies from different countries that came to India during this period.

By 1942, the non-violent movement started by M K Gandhi had snowballed to

become an unstoppable Freedom Movement. In 1942, the Indian National Congress
(INC)10 started the Quit India Movement11 that greatly disrupted foreign businesses in
India and British business in particular. The increasing conflict within India and the
competition among British textile industry, Indian textile industry and Japanese textile
industry halted the huge textile trade transaction that Japan had with India in the year
1942. Please refer to Table A5 and Table A6 in Appendix for data on trade of cotton and
cotton yarn between Japan and India.

In short, during 1919-42, while U.K. became vulnerable, USA and Japan
emerged as powerful nations. The American and the Japanese companies entered the
Indian market in a big way. Japan’s trade with India not only reached an all time high but

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A O Hume formed the Indian National Congress in the year 1885. This forum was to bring together the
Indian leaders with a purpose to discuss, debate and present the concerns of the people of India to the
British Government in India. Over the years, this forum became the major instrument to fight for freedom
of India. Most of the Indian leaders like G K Gokhale, B G Tilak, M K Gandhi, J L Nehru, Vallabhbhai
Patel and most of the Indian leaders prior to 1947 were part of INC.

11 Between 1940 and 1942, the INC launched two abortive agitations against the British, and 60,000
Congress members were arrested, including Gandhi and Nehru. 1942 begins the Quit India movement, a
demand for immediate and complete independence at any cost along with a commitment to non-
cooperation and boycott of all things British. Gandhi said ‘this orderly disciplined anarchy should go, and
if as a result there is complete lawlessness I would risk it.’ Many INC leaders were arrested for this view.
By the end of Second World War, Britain was unable to spend the needed money on maintaining India and
so in 1944, it began a plan to transfer power to the Indians.

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it also touched rock bottom due to the various interest groups like the British Companies,
British Government and the Indian Companies. As far as the textile business was
concerned, there was a triangular competition of Lancashire Textile Mills, Shanghai
Textile Mills and Bombay Textile Mills. The representation of Indians increased in the
governance of the British Government in India. The local businesses pressed for
protection of local industries due to the business competition within and outside India
leading to the introduction of import duties on foreign goods for the first time in India.
This set in a new shift in the composition of foreign investment in India as many foreign
companies directly invested in the manufacturing activities in India. Indeed, this period
marked the beginning of FDI in India.

FDI in India, 1943-1961

The year 1943 marked the beginning of a new period in the history of FDI in
India. Direct Investment by foreign companies, activated in the 1930s was enhanced and
encouraged by both the Indian business houses and by the newly formed Government of
India (GOI) during this period. Local industries had felt the need for foreign technology
and foreign capital by 1942. They largely favored the flow of foreign technology and
foreign capital from around the world. Although, the British Government formally
transferred power to the Indians on August 15, 1947, the policies on FDI were largely
dictated by the local business houses and politicians from the around the beginning of this
period. Within five years that is from 1943 to 1945, 14 foreign companies registered
themselves in India and this trend continued in the subsequent years until 1961. As many
as 27 foreign companies were registered in India from 1948 to 1961. Please refer to
Table A7 in Appendix for the number of foreign companies that were registered in India
during this period.

After India became politically independent in 1947, the GOI was faced with
myriad of problems. Economic and industrial development of India was one of the major
tasks at hand. First of all, the GOI nationalized many companies in some industries that
the Government considered strategic for the country. Companies in the industries like

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Power, Oil & Petroleum, Mining, Banking, Insurance, Airlines, etc, were brought under
the control of the Government. Then it adopted the Five-Year Plan12 method to improve
the economic and industrial condition of the country. Further, to strengthen the public
sector companies, the GOI under the leadership of Nehru13 sought the financial and
technical support of Russia, Germany and the United Kingdom to set up large-scale
industrial projects in India. GOI followed a dual policy of state involvement and private
involvement in the business activities in the country. GOI promoted public sector
companies in areas like steel, oil, power, defense, telecommunications and the private
sector investments were encouraged in areas like chemicals, light industries, personal
care and consumer goods.

Having experienced the level of competition in the global markets, the Indian
textile and textile related businesses had been looking for foreign technology and foreign
capital by the end of 1930s (Bagchi, 1972). Further, with the entry of more foreign
companies during the 1930s and 1940s, the competition with in the domestic market also
peaked up and the pressure to upgrade technology increased among the Indian
companies. The GOI had also understood the need for getting both foreign technology
and foreign capital for its industrial growth. It also needed foreign exchange to meet the
burgeoning imports of essential commodities. In addition, GOI faced severe foreign
exchange problem in 1957-58 and hence encouraged foreign investment in the late 1950s
to attract larger foreign exchange. All these factors compelled the Government to invite
foreign capital and technology to India during this period. This is reflected by the liberal
policies on foreign investments in the First Five-Year Plan (1951-1955) and the Second
Five-Year Plan (1956-1961).

To enhance its developmental activities, the GOI also informally started asking
the large foreign and domestic companies in India to take up some of the development
12
The GOI constituted Planning Commission in the year 1950. For every five year in advance, this
commission were to plan in advance on the nature and emphasis of investment in different sectors so that
India could grow steadily on all fronts. The First Five Year Plan was for the period 1951-1955.
13
Jawahar Lal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of free India. He took charge of the country when the
British Government transferred power to India in 1947 and was elected first Prime Minister of the country
in 1950.

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work of the Government by investing in industries that it could not undertake. Foreign
companies like Glaxo, Unilever, ICI, General Motors, Ford Motors, Pepsi Drinks, etc
were informally asked to invest in new ventures and at the same time to include local
equity in their businesses in India (Fieldhouse, 1978, Davenport, 1992). While some
foreign companies undertook the developmental role in India, many others quit India
during this period. For instance, General Motors and Ford Motors that enjoyed
monopolistic position in India for more than 20 years closed their operations in 1953.
Similarly, unwilling to abide by the government regulation to include local participation
in its equity, Pepsi Drinks ceased its operation in India in 1961 shortly after starting its
operation in 1956.

It is generally believed that the policies of GOI to nationalize companies in

certain industries and the informal pressures of GOI on foreign companies to increase
local equity participation in India reduced the flow of FDI into India during this period.
Contrary to this popular perception, this study finds that FDI to India during this period
actually rose and reached a peak in the year 1961. From 1948 to 1961, the amount of FDI
stock grew from 2558 million INR (Indian Rupee) to 5285 million INR, an increase of
nearly 143 %. Similarly, the number of foreign collaborations with Indian companies
grew significantly. The number of joint ventures increased from 34 in 1951 to 464 in
1961, an increase of nearly 14 times in a period of 11 years.

A large number of American companies invested in India during this period.

Over one hundred American companies entered India during the last three years, viz.
1956-61, of this period (U.S. Department of commerce, 1961). Please refer to Table A8
to Table A10 in Appendix for the list of American companies that started business in
India during these three years. The share of the American companies remarkably
increased from 4.4 % in 1948 to over 13% in 1961. German and Swiss companies
increased their investment amount modestly. Japan hardly had any investment in India
from 1942 to the middle of fifties. The GOI was able to direct FDI from trading and
services sectors to the manufacturing sector. Investments in trade and plantation
gradually reduced to less than half (37%) by 1948 and then it reduced to less than a
quarter (23%) by 1961 and it was a mere 5% by 1961. While the share of foreign

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investments in trade fell, the investment in the manufacturing sector increased to over
60% by the end of this period.

It is interesting to observe that the British investments grew during this period
due to the deeper commitment of British companies in India prior to 1947. In addition,
companies like Cadbury Chocolates, Tube Investments, Reckitt & Coleman, and Horlicks
from the U.K. ventured into India during this period. Further, American companies like
Pfizer, Parke Davis, Otis Elevator, Coke, Pepsi, Vicks Products, etc entered India. While
Nestle, Siemens, Pharmacia, Hoechst, BASF, etc came from Europe. Please refer to
Table A2, Table A3 and Table A4.in Appendix for a sample list of foreign companies
from different countries that came to India during this period. Although, the Japanese
trading firms had stopped their trading of cotton and cotton yarn by 1942, a few Japanese
manufacturing companies like Asahi Glass, Shimada Glass, Nippon Chemicals, Hitachi,
and Nichimen came to India in this period.

In short, the amount of FDI and the number of foreign joint ventures in India
increased significantly during this period. With India becoming free from the British rule
in 1947, the opportunity for companies from Europe and America arose. While some of
the British manufacturing companies increased their investments in India during this
period, companies from other countries especially from USA entered India in large
numbers. There was also a qualitative change in the nature of FDI in India. Share of FDI
in manufacturing sector also increased significantly during this period, due to the FDI
policy guidelines of the Government of India.

FDI in India, 1962-1977

The year 1962 is the beginning of another important phase in the history of FDI
in India. This year marks a shift in the trends of FDI in India. In the previous period, the
Government of India had begun to informally suggest the foreign companies to include
Indian equity in their companies. However, during this period, these issues were

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formalized through the legislation of Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA)14 in
1973. Foreign companies also came under the Monopolies and Restrictive Policy
(MRTP)15, 1969 Act during this period. MRTP (1969) Act restricted companies on the
size of operation and the pricing of products and services.

The Reserve Bank of India geared itself to implement the above act. As a result,
many companies that did not want to increase equity participation of Indians as per
section (2) of FERA, 1973 decided to cease their operations in India. As many as 54
companies applied to wind up their operations by 1977-78 since the implementation of
the above Act in 1974 and 9 companies applied to wind up their operations in 1980-81
(Annual Reports, Reserve Bank of India16, 1977, 1978, 1981).

The closure of some well performing foreign companies like Coca Cola in 1977
and IBM in 1978 are some of the well-known cases of this period. In the 1960s, when the
Government advised the foreign companies to include local participation in their existing
equity, many foreign companies reacted adversely to such suggestions of the
Government. Unwilling to abide by the government regulation to include local
participation in its equity, Pepsi Drinks ceased its operation in India in 1961-62 shortly
after starting its operation in 1956. When the Government informally suggested
companies to invest in businesses like oil mills, fertilizers, and chemicals, industries in
which the Government could not invest, many companies objected to the policy of the
Government. However, some companies like Unilever invested in oil mills and ICI
invested in fertilizer. ICI emerged as the biggest manufacturer of fertilizer by 1969.

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According to FERA (1973), all foreign companies that owned more than 40% equity in their Indian
operations were required to get the permission of Reserve Bank of India to continue their business in India.
As per section (2) of FERA, 1973, foreign firms were required to include local participation in the equity of
foreign companies in India. Depending on the nature of business, some companies were allowed to own
51% of equity and others were allowed to own 74% of equity (Roy, 1973)
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MRTP (1969) was introduced to ensure that the operation of economic systems does not create the
concentration of power in hands of a few people and minimizes the trade and monopolistic practices of
private companies in India. Through this Act, both the domestic and foreign private companies came under
the strict vigilance especially on the size of operations and pricing of products.
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Reserve Bank of India is the Central Bank of India. In other words, this is the Federal Bank of India.

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 The amount of FDI and the number of foreign joint ventures from all the foreign
countries declined drastically from 1962 to 1968 and had an erratic trend from 1969 till
1977. The number of foreign collaborations reduced from 464 in the year 1961 to 131 in
the year 1968. Although, the number of new collaborations drastically reduced and many
of the foreign companies disinvested from India during this period, some of the existing
large foreign companies continued their operations in India. In fact, some of the
companies consolidated their market positions in India during this period. For instance,
Unilever invested in Modern Foods, Indexport Ltd., and Hind Lever Chemicals. ICI set
up Chemical and Fibers of India Limited in Thane in 1963 to manufacture polyester
staple fibers. It started manufacturing fertilizer in Panki near Kanpur in 1969 and set up
the ICI Research and Technology Center in Thane in 1976. Some of these companies also
invested in export activities as GOI provided incentives for exports by setting up two
Export Processing Zones (EPZs), viz., Kandla in 1965 and Santa Cruz in 1972.

Besides the increasing participation of the existing large foreign companies,

quite a few well-known British, American, Japanese and some European companies also
invested in India during this period. British companies like BPL, and American
companies like Cummins, Frick Company, E Merck, Precision Gears, and Singer
Machine entered India. While Continental AG, Heinrich Schmidt AG, Piaggio, Wartsila
Oy were a few European companies, Kokoku Wires, Mitsubishi, Yuken, Sankyo, and
Daikin were a few Japanese companies that invested in India during this period.

In short, this period clearly marks a shift in the FDI Policy of the Government
of India. FERA, 1973 was the culmination of the manifestation of objectives of the
Government that was pursued informally in the previous period. As a result of the
changes in the policy, nearly 80 foreign companies ceased their operations in India and
the number of joint ventures from all the foreign countries decreased dramatically.
Interestingly, while many foreign companies left India, many new companies from USA,
Europe and Japan ventured into India during this period. Further, some of the major

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British companies that already had direct investments in India consolidated their
businesses with further investments in India during this period.

FDI in India, 1978-1990

The year 1978 marked another new phase in the liberalization and globalization
process of FDI in India. The Industrial Policy Statement, 1977 of GOI announced the
relaxation in remittances of profits, royalties, dividends and repatriation of capital of
foreign companies. Further, the Industrial Policy, 1980 of GOI set the tone of
liberalization in India in a slow but steady pace. Industrial Licensing was streamlined and
made easier. Provisions in MRTP Act (1969) were modified to simplify business
transactions. Export and Import norms were also changed to encourage FDI in India.

Prior to 1978 most of the items that were imported to India were routed through
State Trading Corporation, a government controlled organization. Only a few items that
were inconsequential to the total outflow or inflow of foreign exchange were kept in the
list of Open General License (OGL). Beginning 1978, GOI transferred most of the items
that were earlier imported through State Trading Corporation to Open General License
(OGL), wherein these imports and exports could be routed through private firms. Nearly
350 importable items were liberalized in two years (1984–1985) and many more were
subsequently added to the list of OGL.

The government also reduced import restrictions and tariffs. Since 1980, the
tariffs in general have come down to nearly 25% and in some cases up to 5% - 10%.
Further, to boost the exports from India, GOI provided special facilities and tax privileges
to foreign companies to set up 100% export oriented units. GOI set up four more export
processing zones (EPZ) in addition to the two that were already set up in the previous
period. All these policy changes led to greater liberalization on the exports and imports of
India.

The total number of joint ventures increased steadily from 1978-79 until 1984-85,

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then decreased and showed signs of recovery during 1989-90. USA emerged to be the
biggest contributor to the number of joint ventures in India during this period. Germany
was the second largest contributor. The share of British companies in the total number of
joint ventures clearly declined in this period as compared to their overwhelming
dominance in the previous years. The share of other countries including those from
Europe increased gradually.

The amount of FDI to India greatly fluctuated during this period including the
amounts of FDI from the two leading countries, viz. USA and Germany. FDI from Japan
increased in 1982-83. However, share of FDI from the Japanese companies declined
slowly from 1982 until the end of 1990. The share of FDI from U.K. also dramatically
went down during this period. However, the liberalization process initiated in this period
has shown overall positive trends in the inward FDI as compared to the previous period.
The number of foreign companies that registered in India during this period more than
doubled to 128 from only 62 during the previous period, 1962-1977. The total number of
joint ventures also increased from 307 in 1978 to 703 in 1990. Similarly, the amount of
FDI rose from 89 million INR to 1238 million INR, an increase of over 13 times.

GOI made a series of changes in the export and import policies in India during
this period. Although, there have been fluctuations in the number of joint ventures and
the amount of FDI in India, the amount of FDI increased by nearly 13 times during this
period. In comparison to that of the previous period, the number foreign companies
registered in India doubled during this period.

FDI in India, 1991-2000

The year 1991 marks a new growth phase of FDI in India with an all time high
flow of FDI. Following the Industrial Policy (1991)17, a large number of foreign

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The Industrial Policy (1991) made several provision to liberalize the flow of FDI into the country. With
this many sectors were opened up for FDI in India. A phase wise reduction of import duties was outlined in
this policy. This policy marked the beginning of many economic and fiscal reforms in India.

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companies from different parts of the world rushed into India. In this period, in addition
to thousands of foreign collaborations in India, as many as 145 foreign companies
registered in India within a span of 10 years from 1991-2000. Companies like General
Motors, Ford Motors, and IBM that divested from India in the 1950s and 1970s reentered
India during this period. A large number of Asian companies like Daewoo Motors,
Hyundai Motors and LG Electronics from S. Korea, Matsushita Television and Honda
Motors from Japan invested in India during this period.

The Government of India faced severe foreign exchange crisis by 1990 and its
foreign exchange reserve had reached an unsustainable level. International Monetary
Fund (IMF) and World Bank agreed to provide loans to India on the conditions that India
will make major changes to liberalize trade and investments in India. The domestic
pressure to meet the imports of essential commodities and the external pressure to
liberalize Indian market forced the Government of India to accelerate the liberalization
process in India. With the legislation of the Industrial Licensing Policy, 1991, industrial
licensing was abolished except for 18 industries. FDI up to 51% equity was allowed in 34
formerly high priority industries and the concept of phased manufacturing requirement on
foreign companies was removed. Further, the tariffs on imports have been steadily
reduced in every budget since 1991.

Subsequently, GOI replaced FERA, 1973 that regulated all foreign exchange
transactions with Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), 199918. The objectives of
FEMA have been to facilitate external trade and payments and to promote orderly
development and maintenance of foreign exchange market. But for sectors like banking,
civil aviation, petroleum, real estate, venture capital funds, infrastructure, service sector,
atomic energy, defense, agriculture and plantation, print media, broadcasting and postal
services, automatic approval of FDI were allowed in all other sectors during this period.

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FEMA was created to facilitate external trade and payments and to promote orderly development and
maintenance of foreign exchange market. The objective of FEMA has been to facilitate and not regulate
foreign trade and investment as it was in FERA (1973), (Roy, 2000). Many of the FDI approval processes
have been simplified to smoothen the approval process with the enactment of this Act.

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 The total number of foreign collaborations increased from 976 in the year 1991
to 2144 in the year 2000. Similarly, the amount of FDI increased from 5156 million INR
to 373722 million INR during this period. It is also observed that there has been a
significant shift in the share of FDI from different countries that have been investing in
India. The share of FDI from the United Kingdom reduced to almost 10% and the share
of FDI from UK & USA also decreased during this period. Interestingly the share of
other countries including S. Korea, Malaysia, Australia, and countries from Asia and
European Union increased to over 65% of the total FDI during this period.

In a period of about 40 years since the British left India, USA has gained more
control of the Indian economy through direct investments of American companies in
India. Owing to the poor balance of payment position in 1990, India had to seek loan
from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that is largely controlled by USA. IMF used
this opportunity to force India to liberalize its economy so that foreign companies could
have more & easy access to the Indian economy and market. In the recent decade,
however, companies from many other countries have increased their share of direct
investments in India.

In summary, the poor balance of payment position of India and pressure of IMF
and World Bank to liberalize the Indian economy forced the Government of India to
accelerate the pace of liberalization process in India since 1991. While the shares of FDI
from traditionally dominant countries like the U.K. and the USA have fallen, the shares
of FDI from other countries including the countries from Asia and the European Union
have increased from 53% in 1991 to 86% in 2000. The power equation of U.K., USA,
Japan and other European countries with India had changed by the end of this period.

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IV. Summary

1. FDI Trends in Non Manufacturing and Manufacturing, 1921-2000

Most of the investments in the first fifty years have been in trade and finance
with a focus on Plantation & Mining industries like tea, jute and coal. By 1948, the share
of FDI in trade and finance was 64%. However, by 1991-99, this had dropped to 12% and
the share of FDI in the manufacturing sector has grown to nearly 88 %. Figure 1 shows
the reversal in the trend of FDI in trade & finance versus manufacturing during 1921 to
2000. This also shows the importance of manufacturing sector in India and the steadiness
in the objectives of the Government of India since 1947. Please refer to Table A12 in
Appendix for the actual percentages of FDI in the two sectors during the period 1921 to
2000.

Figure 1: Trends in Sectorwise Share of FDI, 1921 – 2000

100
Non Manufacturing
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10 Manufacturing
0
1921 1938 1948 1955 1960 1991 2000

Source: Compiled from (a) Tomlinson (1989), (b) Kurian (1966), (c) Ganesh (1997), (d) India
Investment Center, Government of India, (e) Center for Industrial & Economic Research, (f)
International Investment Position of India (2003), and (g) Ministry of Finance, Government of India.

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2. Trends in Amount of FDI, 1900s-2000

Despite the changes in the economic and political circumstances there has been a
steady rise in the average annual amount of FDI to India during the period 1921 to 2000.
Figure 2 shows the annual average inward FDI to India during 1921 to 2000. Please see
Table A13 in Appendix for the actual amount of FDI during 1921-2000. The amount
shown for the period 1991-2002, however, is the amount approved by the Government of
India and not the actual amount invested in India.

Figure 2: Annual Average FDI in India, 1921-2000 (in million INR)

5
Log of Yearly FDI in million INR

0
1 9 2 1 -1 9 38 1 94 9 -1 9 6 1 1 9 6 2 -1 9 7 7 1 9 8 0 -1 9 90 1 9 91 -2 0 0 0

Ye a rs

Source: Compiled from (a) Tomlinson (1989), (b) Wilkins (1994), (c) India Investment Centre (1967-70),
(d) Kurian (1996), and (e) Indian Investment Center (1991-2000).

The most noticeable change in the investment pattern has been the shift in the
share of amount of FDI from different countries. Until 1964-65, FDI from U.K.
constituted over 85% of the total FDI. Later during 1919 to 1941, Japan was a major
trading partner of India. During 1965 to 1990, after India was freed from British rule,
USA and Germany became the lead investors. However, in recent decade, the other

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countries19 including countries from European Union and Asia have greatly increased
their share of FDI in India. The share of other countries increased from 52% in 1991 to
86% in 2000. The trends of yearly countrywise amount of FDI to India during 1949-
2000 are shown in Figure 3. Please see Table A14 in Appendix for the yearly
countrywise actual amounts of FDI to India during 1949-2000.

Figure 3: Amount of FDI in India: 1949-2000

6.00
FDI in Log10 Million INR

5.00
4.00
3.00
2.00
1.00
0.00
-1.00
-2.00
Years: 1949-2000

UK USA Germany Japan Others

Source: India Investment Centre

3. Trends in Number of Foreign Companies, 1900s-2000:

Foreign companies have invested in India through out the twentieth century
either as wholly owned subsidiaries or as joint venture partners. The total number of
foreign companies newly registered in India has steadily increased during the different
time periods in the twentieth century. The number of registered companies in each period
is shown in Figure 4.

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India Investment Center, Government of India data shows that the FDI from many Asian and South East
Asian countries to India has significantly increased in the recent years. In fact, the largest investor in India
in 1999 among all the foreign countries has been Mauritius. Korea, and Australia have also significantly
increased their share of investments in India in the recent years.

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 Figure 4: Number of Foreign Companies Registered in India: 1901-2000

160
Number of foreign companies registered
140

120

100

80

60

40

20

0
1901 - 1918 1919 - 1942 1943 - 1961 1962 - 1977 1978 - 1990 1991 - 2000

Ye ar

Source: Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy

The number of foreign collaborations in India has also steadily increased during
the period 1951 to 2000. However, there has been significant shift in the countrywise
number of foreign collaborations in India during the same period. The countrywise trends
in the number of collaborations are shown in Figure 5. Please refer to Table A15 in
Appendix for the actual number of foreign collaborations in India during 1951 - 2000.

Figure 3.5: Trends in Countrywise Number of Foreign collaborations: 1951-2000

1400
Number of Collaborations

1200

1000

800

600

400

200

0
Years: 1951-2000

UK USA Germany Japan Others

Source: India Investment Centre

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4. Periodization of FDI in India, 1900s-2000

The history of FDI in India during the twentieth century has evolved through a
six time periods, viz., 1900s-1918, 1919-1942, 1943-1961, 1962-1977, 1978-1990, and
1991-2000. During the first stage (1900s-1918), there were hardly any restrictions on the
nature and type of FDI. The foreign investments could flow ‘freely’ into India. However,
except U.K., most of the countries neither had the need and nor the will to invest in India.
Foreign Investment to India was mainly through the Managing Agents from U.K.

It was in the second phase (1919-1942) that FDI in India actually originated. The
introduction of import duties during this period ‘stimulated’ many British companies to
invest in the Indian manufacturing sector to protect their businesses in India. Although,
the Japanese companies increased their share of trade with India, U.K. remained to be the
dominant investor in India during this period.

The third phase (1943-1961) saw a huge increase in the flow of FDI into India.
During this period the Indian companies and GOI realized the need to import technology
and finance from foreign companies and encouraged the same. This led to ‘ambitious’
investments by many companies from countries like U.K. and USA.

The fourth phase (1962-1977) marked the Indian Government’s regulatory

regime that imposed severe restrictions to control foreign exchange, type of FDI and
ownership of foreign companies in India. These restrictions led to a ‘controlled’ flow of
FDI in India and nearly eighty foreign companies also divested from India during this
period.

The fifth phase (1978-1990) saw a new direction in the history of FDI in India
with liberalization in imports and exports of the country. Although, the amount of FDI
increased by over 13 times during this period, foreign companies invested ‘cautiously’
during this period with a wait and watch attitude.

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 And, in the final phase (1991-2000), the liberalization process in India was
accelerated under the behest of IMF and World Bank. There have been very high growths
in the amount of inward FDI and the number of joint ventures in India. More importantly,
FDI has flowed from across the world resulting in a globalized structure of FDI in India.

The history of FDI in India during the twentieth century may be summarized to
have evolved through a six-stage process: Free Flow (1900s-1918), Stimulated Flow
(1919-1942), Ambitious Flow (1943-1961), Controlled Flow (1962-1977), Cautious Flow
(1978-1990), and Globalized Flow (1991-2000). The history of FDI in India is
summarized in Table 1. The table summarizes the periods, the drivers of change, the
driving forces, the major sources of direct investments, the nature of investments and the
phases of evolution of present globalization of FDI in India.

V. CONCLUSION

The historical analysis of FDI in India during the period 1900s-2000 shows that
today’s liberalized economy and globalized structure of FDI in India have been an
outcome of the adjustment and alignment process of the Indian Government to the
dynamics of the various domestic and international pressures and global competition
since the 1900s, and it is not merely a phenomenon of post 1991 as popularly perceived.
The rapid change and development in FDI Policies in India in the post 1991 are only the
manifestation of the change processes of the past and the enhancement of the changes
adopted in the past.

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 Table 1: History of FDI in India: 1900s-2004

Characteristics / Drivers of Change Driving Forces Major sources of Nature of Stages of Evolution
Period Investments Investments

1900s-1918 U.K. No restriction in FDI U.K. Trading & Finance Free Flow Phase

1919-1942 U.K., Japan and Import duties were U.K. and Japan Trading, Finance & Stimulated Phase
Local Textile companies introduced Manufacturing

1943-1961 Government of India Demand for foreign U.K. and U.S.A. Manufacturing, Sales Ambitious Stage
technology & capital in & Services Phase
manufacturing sector

1962-1977 Government of India MRTP, 1970, FERA, 1973, U.S.A., Germany and Manufacturing Controlled Phase
and U.K.
Investments in public sector
companies

1978-1990 Government of India, Liberalization of imports and U.S.A. and Germany Manufacturing Cautious Phase
WTO and Local exports
companies

1991-2000 IMF, World Bank, WTO Acceleration of liberalization Globalized Manufacturing, Trade Globalized Phase
and Local Business and Globalization of FDI & Financial Service
Houses.
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APPENDICES

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 Table A1: Joint-Stock Companies Registered, 1911

Name of Managing Agents / Number of joint-stock companies held

Secretary
Tea Coal Jute Total

Andrew Yule & Co. 10 11 6 27

Begg, Dunlop & Co. 10 - 2 12
Bird & Co. - 11 8 19
Shaw Wallace & Co. 2 11 - 13
Williamson, Magor & Co. 10 5 - 15
George, Henderson & Co. 2 - - 2
Planter's Stores & Agency 1 - - 1
Kilburn & Co. 6 2 - 8
Octavius Steel & Co. 10 2 - 12
Gillanders, Arbuthnot & co 1 - 1 2
Kettlewell, Bullen & Co. 1 - 1 2
J. Mackillican & Co. 2 - - 2
C.A. Stewart 4 - - 4
Duncan Bros. 12 - - 12
Davenport & Co. 8 - - 8
Hoare, Miller & Co. 1 3 - 4
Jardine, Skinner & Co. 2 2 2 6
McLeod & Co. 3 5 2 10
Barry & Co. 3 - 1 4
Macneill & Co. - 5 - 5
H.V. Low & Co. - 4 - 4
F.W. Heilgers & Co. - 7 2 9
Stanley, Oaks & Co. - 1 - 1
Apcar & Co. - - 1 1
Anderson Wright & Co. - 2 1 3
Ernsthausen Ltd. - 1 2 3
Balmer Lawrie & Co. - 4 - 4
Martin & Co. - 3 - 3
Lyall, Marshall & Co. - 1 - 1
N.C. Sircar & Sons - 7 - 7
Total 88 87 29 204

Source: Bagchi, A.K., (1972)

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 Table A2: UK Companies with Investment in India
Year of
Parent company Indian Company
Investment
1767 Forbes Gokak Forbes Gokak
1843 Parry & Company Parry & Company
1876 Binny & Company Binny & Company
1911 ITC ITC Limited
1911 GEC GEC (India)
1918 Associated Biscuits Britanica Biscuits
1920 Burmah Oil Co. Tinplate Co. (India)
1921 Burner Mond & Co. Burner Mond & Co.(India)
1921 Ingersoll & Rand Ltd Ingersoll & Rand (India) Ltd
1924 H.J. Foster & Co. H.J. Foster & Co.
1924 Glaxo Industries Glaxo(I) Ltd
1926 Joseph Nathan & Co Joseph Nathan & Co.
1929 ICI ICI (India)
1930 VST VST Industries
1931 GKN Guest, Keen, Williams
1931 Lever Brothers Hindustan Vanaspati Mfg. Co
1933 United Traders United Traders
1933 Lever Brothers Lever Brothers India Ltd
1933 Metal Box Metal Box (India)
1934 Turner Newall Asbestos Cement
1934 Eveready Industries Eveready Industries India Ltd
1935 BOC Indian Oxygen
1935 J & P Coats Acme Thread Company Limited
1936 Godfrey Philips Godgfrey Philips (India)
1936 Dunlop Dunlop (India)
1937 ICI Alkali & Chemicals Corporation
1947 Chloride (India) Chloride
1947 Crompton Greeves Crompton Greeves Ltd
1948 British Leyland Ashok Leyland
1948 Cadbury Cadbury India Ltd.
1948 Rallis Ltd Rallis India Ltd.
1949 TI Tube Investment (India)
1951 Reckitt & Coleman Reckitt & Coleman of India Ltd
1953 ICI Indian Explosives
1956 Unilever Hindustan Lever Ltd
1958 Horlicks Ltd Hindustan Milk Food Manufacturers
1961 ICI Chemicals & Fibres
1961 Lucas Lucas-TVS
1963 B P L(Instruments) BPL India
1974 J&P Coats Madura Coats
1984 Beecham Eskaylab
1985 SBG International BSL India(SBG India Ltd)
Source: Compiled from Bagchi (1972), Tomlinson (1989), Hines and Jones (1989), and Individual Company History

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 Table A3: European Companies with Investments in India
Year of
Parent company Indian Company
Investment
GERMANY
1944 Knoll, AG Knoll Pharmaceuticals Ltd (Now Abbot
Laboratories)
1956 Hoechst Marion Russel Ltd Hoechst Marion Russef Ltd
1957 BASF, AG Bayer(India) Ltd
1957 Seimens Siemens India Ltd
1971 Continental, AG Modi Rubber Ltd

SWITZERLAND
1959 Nestle Nestle India Ltd
1962 Clariant ClariantO) India
1964 Secheron Ltd Emco Transformers
1974 Heinrich Schmid, AG IFB Industries Ltd (Indian Fire Blank Ltd.)

SWEDEN
1923 Swedish Match AB Wimco Ltd
1937 Swedish Match AB Vulcan Trading Co.
1961 Swedish Match AB A If a Lava I
1960 Eiectrolux Whirpool of India Ltd
1964 SKF Bearing India Ltd (Associated Bearing Co.
Ltd.)
2001 Electro lux Eiectrolux Kelvinator
2001 Eiectrolux Intron Ltd

ITALY
1972 Piaggio LML Ltd.

FINLAND
1968 Watsila Oy Watsila NSD India Ltd

HOLLAND
1930 Phiips Philips Electricals (Co.) Ltd
1979 Philips India Pvt. Ltd
1993 Philips India Pvt. Ltd

POLAND
1959 Ursus Escorts Ltd.

Source: Compiled from individual company history and individual company homepages

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 Table A4: US Companies with Investment in India

Year of Parent company Indian Company

Investment
1910s Ludlow Jute Company Ludlow Jute Company
1928 General Motors General Motors
1930 Ford Motors Ford Motors
1937 Colgate-Palmolive Colgate-Palmolive(India) Ltd
1950 Pfizer Dumex Pvt Ltd
1950 Coke Coke
1951 Vicks Product Inc. Vicks Product Inc.
1951 IBM IBM, India
1956 Pepsi Pepsi
1958 Park-Davis Park-Davis(India) Ltd.
1960 Kelvinator International Co. Whirpool of India Ltd
1962 Cummins Cummins India Ltd
1963 Mansfield Tire & Rubber Co. MRF Ltd
1967 E. Merck E Merck (India) Ltd
1979 Castrol Castrol India Ltd
1985 Proctor & Gamble P&G, India
(by acquiring Richardson Vicks Inc.)
1987 Timken Inc. Tata Timken
1989 Hewlett Packard Hewlwtt Packard, India
1995 Ford Motor Co. Ford, India
1995 Genera! Motors General Motors India Ltd

Source: Compiled from individual Company History and individual Company Homepage

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Table A5: Japan's total Raw Cotton Imports vis-à-vis Imports from India
World India
% from
Year Unit India
Quantity Value Quantity Value Unit Price
Price
1928 1,302,023 549,942 0.42 613,857 232,267 0.38 47

1929 1,438,610 573,016 0.4 634,863 231,108 0.36 44

1930 1,276,421 362,047 0.28 630,059 147,038 0.23 49

1931 1,487,577 296,273 0.2 641,100 113,262 0.18 43

1932 1,698,688 447,401 0.26 365,312 91,747 0.25 22

1933 1,665,277 604,847 0.36 530,304 163,797 0.31 32

1934 1,807,314 731,423 0.4 772,318 252,435 0.33 43

1935 1,637,832 714,262 0.44 694,805 259,037 0.37 42

1936 2,028,156 850,451 0.42 836,926 315,061 0.38 41

1937 1,835,322 851,163 0.46 935,498 363,635 0.39 51

1938 1,259,461 436,835 0.35 412,811 113,331 0.27 33

1939 1,335,127 462,007 0.35 448,320 120,997 0.27 34

1940 1,026,248 504,072 0.49 312,358 115,374 0.37 30

1941 785,892 391,783 0.5 283,937 94,064 0.33 36

1942 269,375 224,306 0.83 2,910 1,574 0.54 1

Source: All Japan Cotton Spinners Association, (1949)

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 Table A6: Japan's total Exports of Cotton Yarn vis-à-vis Exports to India

World India
% From
Year Unit
Quantity Value Quantity Value Unit Price India
Price
1918 168,605,067 162,789,759 0.97 31,770,667 34,998,715 1.1 19

1919 92,134,800 121,636,927 1.32 1,901,200 2,930,475 1.54 2

1920 121,970,000 154,981,805 1.27 19,016,133 30,252,515 1.59 16

1921 116,904,400 80,563,002 0.69 14,865,600 11,991,354 0.81 13

1922 157,624,800 114,723,255 0.73 27,327,867 20,666,783 0.76 17

1923 99,329,867 78,511,961 0.79 23,574,934 20,511,834 0.87 24

1924 108,144,267 109,610,952 1.01 32,336,133 35,954,637 1.11 30

1925 124,321,067 123,116,965 0.99 34,863,667 33,716,812 0.97 28

1926 82,220,400 70,716,335 0.86 23,913,333 23,086,163 0.97 29

1927 47,062,400 38,794,408 0.82 21,895,200 20,010,131 0.91 47

1928 28,662,400 25,894,905 0.9 6,991,099 9,131,071 1.31 24

1929 26,960,667 26,755,702 0.99 11,055,600 13,443,308 1.22 41

1930 23,846,400 15,032,819 0.63 8,015,733 6,576,936 0.82 34

1931 12,690,267 8,510,607 0.67 6,479,467 5,592,234 0.86 51

1932 35,842,133 21,546,681 0.6 20,313,133 14,343,000 0.71 57

1933 19,322,133 15,712,038 0.81 7,372,800 7,605,372 1.03 38

1934 25,937,733 23,484,585 0.91 9,727,333 11,111,917 1.14 38

1935 38,633,200 35,873,277 0.93 17,953,133 20,093,092 1.12 46

1936 44,209,733 38,344,845 0.87 16,870,400 18,050,783 1.07 38

1937 51,892,267 54,905,696 1.06 14,754,233 19,845,595 1.35 28

1938 42,106,000 39,355,054 0.93 18,823,899 29,591,750 1.57 45

1939 82,838,339 71,089,521 0.86 23,430,957 23,953,631 1.02 28

1940 60,950,331 57,975,942 0.95 12,795,151 16,017,440 1.25 21

1941 45,100,000 52,973,763 1.17 5,493,100 9,590,522 1.75 12

1942 2,943,560 5,789,137 1.97 - - - -

Source: All Japan Cotton Spinners Association (1949)

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Table A7: Number of Foreign Companies registered in India, 1901 – 2000

Period Number of Foreign companies registered in India

1901 - 1918 7

1919 - 1942 30

1943 - 1961 72

1962 - 1977 62

1978 - 1990 128

1991 - 2000 145

Source: Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (1989-2002)

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 Table A8: US Companies with Investments in India, 1961
United States Firms
Abbot Universal Ltd.
American Cynamid Company
American Home Products Corp.
Californai Texas Oil Company
Caltex Corporation
The Carborabdum Company
Colgate-Palmolive Company
Corn Products Refining Company
Dayton Rubber Company
Dorr-Oliver, Inc.
Dow Chemical Company
The Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.
Good Year Tire & Rubber Co.
Johnson & Johnson Inc-
Kaiser Aluminium & Chemical Corp
Kaiser Engineering Overseas Corp
Mr. F. S. Kerr
Ludlow Jute Company
Par, Davis & Company Ltd
Parsons & Whittemore South Asia Co, Inc. Mandya National Paper Mills Ltd
Philips Petroleum Company
Radio Corporation of America
Remington Rand Division
Standard Vacuum Oil Company
Steel Improvement Forge Co.
Union Carbide Corporation
Von Kohorn International Corp.
Westrex Corporation
American Express Company, Inc.
AmerinTrading Companies
Geophysical Service Inc.
IBM World Trade Corporation
Otis Elevator Company
Willey's Overland Export Corporation Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd
Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1961
Indian Subsidiary of Affiliate
Abbot Laboratories(India) Pvt. Ltd
Lederle Laboratories (India) Pvt. Ltd.
John Wyeth & Brothers, Ltd., Steelcrete House
Wyeth (India) Pvt. Ltd., Steelcrete House
Caltex Oil Refining (India), Limited
Caltex (India), Limited
Carborandum Universal Ltd
Colgate-Palmolive (India) Ltd
Corn Product Company (India) Pvt. Ltd
Premier Tyres, Ltd
Dorr-Oliver (India) Ltd.
Polychem, Ltd
The Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. of India Pvt Ltd
Synthetics & Chemicals Ltd
Good Year Tire & Rubber Co. of India Pvt Ltd
Johnson & Johnson (Great Britain) Ltd.
Hindustan Aluminium Corp. Ltd
Mysore Cements, Ltd
F. S. Kerr & Co. Pvt Ltd
Cochin Company
Ludlow Jute Company Ltd
Par, Davis & Company Ltd
Seshasayee Paper & Boards Ltd
Phillips Carbon Black, Ltd
Photophones Equipment Pvt Ltd
Remington Rand of India Ltd
Standard Vacuum Oil Company
Republic Forge Co. Ltd
Union Carbide (India) Ltd
India Rayon Corporation Ltd
Westrex Company (India)
American Express Company, Inc.
Malabar Fisheries Corporation
Geophysical Service International, S.A-
IBM World Trade Corporation
Otis Elevator Company India Pvt Ltd
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Table A9: US Companies with Licensing or other Agreements with Indian Firms, 1961
United States Firm
American Chemical Paint Company
Bahnson Company
Bancroft, Jos., and Sons Company
Bogen, David, Company Inc
Buell Engineering Company Inc
Burgess Battery Company
Bush Manufacturing Company
Byron Jackson Pumps Inc
Carrier Corporation
Chrysler Corporation
dark Electronic Laboratories
Cluett-Peabody & Co. Inc
Colgate-Pa I motive Company
Combustion Engineering Inc.
Davis & Lawrence Company
Ebasco Services Inc.
The English Mica Company
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.
Gould-National Batteries Inc.
Hackett Brass Foundry
Kinney, S.P. Engineers Inc.
Koppers Company Inc.
Kullian Corporation
Nielson Chemical Company
Rayon Consultants Inc.
Sawyer's Inc.
Skonandoa Rayon Corporation
Snell, Foster D. Inc.
Squibb, E.R. and Sons
Studebaker Packard Corporation
United States Air Conditioning Corp
United States Vitamin Corp
Wayne Pump Company
Willys Motors Ltd
Zonite Products Ltd
Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1961
Indian Firm
Imperial Chemical Industries (India) Ltd
C- Doctor and Company Pvt. Ltd
Standard Mills Company Ltd
Electronic Limited
Associated Cement Companies Ltd
Estrela Batteries Ltd
American Refrigerator Company
Greeves Cooton & Company Ltd
Voltas Ltd
Premier Automobiles Ltd
Automatic Electric Devices Co. Ltd
Serampur Cotton Mills Ltd
Kohinoor Mills Ltd
New Sharrock Spinning & Mfg. Company Ltd
New Commercial Mills Company
Standard Mills Ltd
Vijay Mills Company Ltd
Elgin Mills Company Ltd
Vikram Mills Ltd
Rustom Jehangir Vakil Mills Company Ltd
Bombay Dyeing & Mgf Co. Ltd
Gaekwar Mills Ltd
Shriram Ambica Mills Ltd
Buckingham & Garnatic Spinning & Weaving Mills Ltd
Colgate-Palmolive (India) Pvt Ltd
Textile Machinery Corporation Ltd
Geoffrey Manners & Company Pvt. Ltd
Tata Hydro-Electric Company Ltd
Governor of Rajasthan
Automobile Products of India Ltd
Amco Batteries Ltd
Tata Iron & Steel Company Ltd
Tata Iron & Steel Company Ltd
Tata Iron & Steel Company Ltd
Damodar Valley Corporation
Addition Paints & Chemicals-Pvt Ltd
National Rayon Corporation Ltd
Patel (India) Ltd
National Rayon Corporation Ltd
Swastic Oil Mill Ltd
Sarabhai Chemicals Ltd
Hindustan Motors Ltd
Electronics Limited
American Products Company Ltd
Mercantile & Industrial Development Company Ltd
Mahindra & Mahlndra Ltd
Geoffrey Manners & Company Pvt. Ltd
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 Table A10: US Companies with Investments in India, 1961
(Primarily in Office Equipment. Stores. Stocks, and Spare Parts)
United States Firms
American Bureau of Shipping
American Export Lines Inc.
American Foreign Insurance Association
American International Underwriters Corp. American International Underwriters (India) Pvt. Ltd
Armco International Corp.
Associated Press
Chase Manhattan Bank
Chesebrough-Pond's Inc.
Coca-Cola Export Corporation
Columbia Broadcasting System
Columbia Pictures Intrl. Corp.
The ChicagoPneumatic Tool Company
Dodge & Seymor Ltd
Eli Lilly Intrernational Corp.
First National City Bank of New York
Gerdau India Corporation
Getz Brothers & Company
Grant Advertising Inc
Gulf Oil Corporation
International Business Consultants Ltd
Indamer Company Pvt Ltd.
Ingersoli-Rand Company
International Chemical Company Inc.
International General Electric Company
Isthmian Lines Inc
Kuljian Corporation
Loew's International Corporation
Loew's International Corporation
McGraw-Hill International Corporation
Monsanto Chemical Company
Muller & Phipps (Asia) Ltd
National Cash Register Company
Pan American World Airways Inc
Paramount International Films Inc
Ralph M. Parson Company
Pepsi-Cola
Picker X-Ray Corporation
RKO Radio Pictures
Republic Pictures International Corp
Edward T. Robertson and Sons
Indian Subsidiaries or Affiliates
American Bureau of Shipping
American Export Lines Inc.
American Foreign Insurance Association
Armco (India) Pvt. Ltd
Associated Press of America
Chase Manhattan Bank
Chesebrough-Pond's Inc.
Coca-Cola Export Corporation
Columbia Broadcasting System
Columbia Films of India Ltd
Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Company Ltd
Dodge & Seymor (India) Pvt Ltd
Eli Lilly and Company of India, Inc.
First National City Bank of New York
Gerdau India Corporation
Getz Brothers & Company
Grant Advertising Inc
Gulf Oil (India) Ltd
Iboon Private Ltd
Indamer Company Pvt Ltd
Ingersoli-Rand (India) Pvt Ltd
International Chemical Company Ltd.
International General Electric Co. (India) Pvt Ltd
Isthmian Steamship Company
Kuljian Corporation
Metro-GoIdwyn-Mayer India Ltd
Metro Theatre Bombay Ltd
McGraw-Hill International Corporation
Monsanto Chemical Company
Muller & Phipps (India) Pvt. Ltd
Picker International Corporation
Pan American World Airways Inc
Paramount Films of India Ltd
Ralph M. Parson Company
Pepsi-Cola
Picker International Corporation
RKO Radio Pictures (Private) Ltd
Republic Pictures of India Ltd
Edward T. Robertson and Sons
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L D Seymour & Company Inc
Singer Sewing Machine Company
The Stanley Works
J- Walter Thompson Far Eastern Co.
Trans World Airlines Inc
20th Century-Fox Intrl. Corp.
United Artists Corporation
Universal Pictures Co. Inc. (Production)
Van Reekum-Gepacy Paper Inc.
Warner Brothers
Westinghouse Trading (Asia) Ltd
Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1961
L D Seymour & Company (India) Pvt Ltd
Singer Sewing Machine Company
The Stanley Works
J. Walter Thompson Company Pvt Ltd
Trans World Airlines Inc
20th Century-Fox Corp. (India) Pvt Ltd
United Press Association
Universal Pictures India Pvt Ltd
Van Reekum-Gepacy Paper Pvt Ltd
Warner Brothers, First National Pictures Inc.
Westinghouse Trading Company (Asia) Ltd
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 Table A12: Sectorwise FDI in India, during 1948--2000

Year 1921 1938 1948 1955 1960 1991 2000

Manufacturing 12 11 36 51 59 88 88

Non Manufacturing 88 89 64 41 41 12 12

Source: Compiled from (a) Tomlinson (1989), (b) Kurian (1966), (c) Ganesh (1997), (d)
India Investment Center (2003), (e) Center for Industrial & Economic Research (1986,
2000-01), (f) International Investment Position of India (2003), and (g) Ministry of Finance
(2003), Government of India.

Table A13: Total Amount of FDI in India, 1921-2000

Year Amount of FDI (in Billion INR)

1921 2.03
1921 - 1938 0.32
1949 - 1961 3.55
1962 - 1968 2.20
1970 - 1979 3.53
1980 - 1990 11.5
1991 - 2000 2474

Sources: Compiled from Tomlinson (1989), Wilkins (1994), India Investment Center(1967-
70. 1991-2000), Kurian (1996), Industrial Data Book (1986), Industrial Data Book (2000-
01).

Please Note: The amount for the period 1991-2002 is the amount approved by the
Government of India and not the actual amount invested in India

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 Table A14: Countrywise Amount of FDI in India: 1949 – 2000
(In million INR)

Year UK USA Germany Japan Others Total

1949* 240.8 37.8 0.0 0.0 n.a 278.6

1950* 240.8 37.8 0.0 0.0 n.a 278.6
1951* 240.8 37.8 0.0 0.0 n.a 278.6
1952* 240.8 37.8 0.0 0.0 n.a 278.6
1953* 240.8 37.8 0.0 0.0 n.a 278.6
1954 252.0 49.0 12.0 0.5 n.a 313.5
1955 252.0 49.0 12.0 0.5 n.a 313.5
1956 157.0 71.0 3.0 0.0 n.a 231.0
1957 63.0 105.0 7.0 4.0 n.a 179.0
1958 0.0 25.0 3.0 0.0 n.a 28.0
1959 1.0 76.0 16.0 0.0 n.a 93.0
1960 427.0 50.0 14.0 8.0 n.a 499.0
1961 163.7 286.3 42.75 71.75 564.5 1091.3
1962 163.7 286.3 42.75 71.75 564.5 1091.3
1963 163.7 286.3 42.75 71.75 564.5 1091.3
1964 163.7 286.3 42.75 71.75 564.5 1091.3
1965 314.0 522.0 82.0 72.0 83.0 1073.0
1966 94.0 286.0 75.0 49.0 178.0 682.0
1967 956.0 1283.0 450.0 232.0 1045.0 3966.0
1968 0.0 472.0 156.0 171.0 163.0 769.0
1969 241.0 331.0 112.8 58.1 263.6 1007.1
1970 241.0 331.0 112.8 58.1 263.6 1007.1
1971 16.6 15.8 11.4 3.7 10.9 58.4
1972 10.8 40.9 1.1 0.2 9.2 62.3
1973 1.2 12.0 7.0 3.3 4.8 28.2
1974 5.2 19.4 6.0 4.7 32.0 67.1
1975 1.5 12.0 6.9 1.3 10.1 31.8
1976 5.6 44.7 9.8 0.0 12.6 72.7
1977 6.7 18.2 7.5 0.0 7.7 40.0
1978 5.0 47.3 8.6 1.3 32.0 94.1
1979 14.8 22.2 4.4 0.0 15.0 56.4
1980 9.7 21.7 4.7 17.0 35.2 88.3
1980 9.7 22.0 4.7 10.2 42.4 89.0
1981 7.1 22.5 54.2 6.5 18.7 109.0
1982 16.5 50.3 35.3 251.1 274.8 628.0
1983 98.0 138.9 48.4 160.8 172.9 619.0
1984 18.1 89.5 28.4 61.5 932.5 1130.0
1985 37.0 400.0 118.0 157.0 495.0 1207.0
1986 77.0 294.0 202.0 56.0 441.0 1070.0
1987 85.0 295.0 99.0 69.0 529.0 1077.0
1988 139.0 970.0 310.0 174.0 805.0 2398.0
1989 335.0 622.0 1203.0 88.0 919.0 3167.0
1990 91.0 345.0 195.0 50.0 602.0 1283.0

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1991 313.0 1749.0 376.0 520.0 2207.0 5165.0
1992 1177.0 11383.0 965.0 6102.0 18388.0 38015.0
1993 6227.0 34730.0 1754.0 2574.0 43333.0 88618.0
1994 12991.0 34881.0 5694.0 4009.0 84298.0 141873.0
1995 17259.0 70448.0 13395.0 15143.0 208579.0 324824.0
1996 15246.0 100549.0 15375.0 14882.0 215447.0 361499.0
1997 44907.0 135698.0 21548.0 19064.0 327687.0 548904.0
1998 32008.0 35619.0 8538.0 12828.0 218642.0 307635.0
1999 29630.0 35755.0 11430.0 15947.0 190903.0 283665.0
2000 4121.0 41398.0 5938.0 8275.0 313990.0 373722.0

Source: Center for Industrial Economic Research, (1986 & 2001), Industrial Data Book
(1986), Industrial Data Book (2000-01), (1991-2000), Indian Investment Center, (1967-
1990), and India Investment Center (1991-2000).

Please Note:
1. The amount for the years with * mark are average figures
2. The amounts for the period 1991 – 2002 are amounts approved by GOI and not the
actual amount of invested in India.

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Table A15: Countrywise Number of Foreign Collaborations in India, 1951– 2000

Year U.K. U.S.A Germany Japan Others Total

1951 17 12 3 2 n.a 34
1952 19 9 1 2 n.a 31
1953 29 7 4 1 n.a 41
1954 31 14 5 0 n.a 50
1955 30 15 11 2 n.a 58
1956 39 16 7 6 n.a 68
1957 57 19 15 4 n.a 95
1958 75 29 21 6 n.a 131
1959 160 58 61 15 n.a 377
1960 161 93 73 50 n.a 464
1961 226 108 85 45 n.a 337
1962 141 103 54 29 10 337
1963 118 110 59 44 1 332
1964 143 112 80 37 5 377
1965 108 65 60 31 3 267
1966 44 42 41 18 0 145
1967 50 34 24 21 2 131
1968 19 36 22 12 0 89
1969 34 18 28 17 2 99
1970 39 33 36 15 0 123
1971 55 43 42 35 1 176
1972 38 62 49 27 1 177
1973 53 48 60 36 2 199
1974 59 79 68 28 3 237
1975 54 55 59 23 6 197
1976 54 69 58 10 1 192
1977 59 54 55 20 1 189
1978 61 58 58 28 102 307
1979 63 48 54 12 90 267
1980 110 125 100 34 157 526
1981 80 85 74 27 123 389
1982 105 109 110 51 213 588
1983 119 135 129 58 232 673
1984 123 143 132 78 264 740
1985 149 229 187 111 365 1041
1986 134 203 188 111 324 960
1987 130 217 154 82 320 903
1988 142 200 179 98 338 957
1989 78 137 114 63 247 639
1990 107 142 141 55 258 703

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 1991 140 174 167 74 421 976
1992 183 344 199 101 693 1520
1993 175 318 177 95 711 1476
1994 199 360 216 134 945 1854
1995 202 491 256 147 1241 2337
1996 205 434 256 160 1248 2303
1997 191 451 257 156 1270 2325
1998 164 390 198 143 891 1786
1999 194 488 218 158 1166 2224
2000 166 509 198 111 1160 2144

Source: Center for Industrial Economic Research (1986 & 2001), Industrial Data Book (1986),
Industrial Data Book (2000-01), Indian Investment Center (1967-1990), and India Investment
Center (1991-2000)

Please Note: The figures for the period 1991 – 2002 are numbers approved by the Government
of India and not the actual number of collaborations.

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