Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India Balasubramanian Aditya
Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India Balasubramanian Aditya The unknown history of economic conservatism in India after independenceNeoliberalism is routinely…
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Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India Balasubramanian Aditya
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. It encouraged Indians to break with the Indian National Congress Party, which spearheaded the anticolonial nationalist movement and now dominated Indian democracy. Revising this understanding, Toward a Free Economy shows how economic conservatism emerged and was disseminated in a postcolonial society consistent with the logic of democracy.Twelve years after the British left India, a Swatantra ("Freedom") Party came to life.
Rejecting Congress's heavy-industrial developmental state and the accompanying rhetoric of socialism, Swatantra promised "free economy" through its project of opposition