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New Delhi [India], March 02: The history of Indian enterprise is usually narrated through policy—Five-Year Plans, the License Raj, and 1991 liberalization. Clean chapters. Clean transitions. The real shift happened elsewhere. Inside homes. In garages. In clinics that were never meant to exist. Indian women did not “enter” entrepreneurship. They carved space in economies that were not designed for them. This article traces that evolution across roughly a century, from the early 1900s to the end of the last completed decade. It stops there deliberately. The current decade is still unfolding, and while its momentum is visible, structural outcomes take…
