Toward a Free Economy

"""Shortlisted for the Joseph W. Elder Prize in Social Sciences, American Institute of Indian Studies"" ""Shortlisted for the W.K. Hancock Prize, Australian Historical Association"" ""Recommended and long overdue.""---Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution ""One of the most comprehensive accounts of opposition politics as carried by key individuals and organisations, their initiatives, and its impact. . . . Within economics, economic history and history of economic thought are two separate disciplines. [Toward a Free Economy] traverses both and goes beyond in its effort to tell the story of India’s opposition in its early days. The book lays down a fertile ground for future researchers to further explore.""---Kumar Anand, The Hindu ""Exhaustively researched.""---Archis Mohan, Business Standard ""An instant classic.""---Sanjeet Kashyap, Australian Outlook ""[A] meticulously researched documentation of a very special, albeit short, period of India’s political history. . . . [Toward a Free Economy] is a book of economic and social history which shows future possibilities, but the highly researched and eminently readable document will surely be the source of many more literary enterprises.""---Sujit Bhar, The Asian Age ""Given the continued relevance of free-market policies in India, the importance of uncovering the underlying ideological constituency that promotes such policies becomes apparent. . . . [Balasubramanian’s] singular achievement lies in highlighting their regionally-grounded economic interests and the transnational linkages with the global civil society network of free traders and anti-communists."" * India Business Journal * ""[A]n intellectual tour-de-force. . . . [Toward a Free Economy] deftly navigates the nuances and complexities in the history of the Swatantra party and revises our understanding of the neoliberal project.""---Raheel Bashir, Global Intellectual History"