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This paper reviews the evidence and arguments about India's progress towards realizing the vision of inclusive growth as set in India’s 11th Five-Year Plan (2007-2012). The paper explains the context of the problem of realizing inclusive growth, followed by accounts of the particular problems of the agricultural economy and of employment trends. As the paper argues, the agricultural economy in which the majority of the people are still employed, remains in difficulty, while high rates of economic growth outside agriculture have not generated very many of the kinds of jobs that would have enabled people from the poorer and weaker sections of society to share in the benefits of growth.