First, the experience of India during the period in question will be outlined and examined. This will include a description of the planning process and an outline of the economic development record of this country. Second, the experience of China from 1947 to 1977 will be described and analyzed. The goal will be to provide an assessment of what happened in these countries and why it happened. This will be both from an internal and an external perspective, such as the way that each country determined its own fate and the way that each country fit in with the evolving global economic environment.