“…After the Balance of Payments crisis in 1991, a comprehensive series of liberalization, privatization and deregulation reforms were implemented in the banking sector, trade sector as well as financial markets in India, the net result being, over the next couple of decades the Indian economy witnessed several structural changes (Shah, 2008;Mohan and Kapur, 2009;Hutchison, Sengupta, Singh, 2011). In what follows, I provide a brief account of the Indian economy with respect to the two main tenets of the Trilemma-capital account openness and exchange rate stability.…”