Announcing The 1991 Fellowship

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In 1991, a small group of technocrats transformed India. Facing a balance of payments crisis, they dismantled the License Raj, opened the economy, and set in motion changes that would lift hundreds of millions out of poverty. That work isn’t finished.India’s most pressing policy problems today aren’t playing out in New Delhi. They’re in state legislatures, district offices, and local courts. Land use conversion laws impede industrialization. Energy pricing schemes cause shortages. Building codes shackle urbanization. Licensing barriers strangle small businesses before they can begin. Entrepreneurship and abundance are still punished, not by ideology, but by outdated regulation.Solving these problems requires a specific kind of person. Someone who can generate ideas for reform, understand the mechanics of implementation, and has the tenacity to see the effort through. These people exist. They’re working as policy analysts in Guwahati, lawyers in Chennai, researchers in Hyderabad. But they’re often isolated, under-resourced, and disconnected from the networks that could amplify their work.That’s why we’re launching The 1991 Fellowship.Following the spirit of Emergent Ventures, this fellowship identifies high-agency individuals early in their careers and backs their work on state-level reform. Fellows choose their own state and policy area. They develop signature projects with real potential for traction.We’re interested in projects that advance real reforms: simplifying labor laws, streamlining property rights and land use, reforming building bylaws and environmental policy, …