Toward a Free Economy : : Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India / / Aditya Balasubramanian.
The unknown history of economic conservatism in India after independenceNeoliberalism is routinely characterized as an antidemocratic, expert-driven project aimed at insulating markets from politics, devised in the North Atlantic and projected on the rest of the world. Revising this understanding, T...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Histories of Economic Life ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 24 b/w illus. 16 tables. 9 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Frequently Used Terms and Acronyms
- Notes on Names and Spellings
- Maps of India
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: “You, Too Can Be an Economist”
- Part I. Situating Free Economy
- 1. Making a New India
- 2. Indian Libertarians and the Birth of Free Economy
- Part II. People, Ideas, Practices
- 3. Conservative Opposition to the “Permit-and- License Raj”
- 4. Beyond Ghosts
- Part III. Party Politics
- 5. Communicating and Mobilizing
- 6. Against the Tide
- Appendix: Electoral Results
- Note on Sources
- Selected Bibliography and Abbreviations
- Index