The genius of Ranade lies in the fact that he used data to substantiate his economic arguments. He used ballpark estimates when data wasn’t easily available.

If we want a decent society our methods must be decent. We cannot create a free and equal society by expropriation, liquidation, lying as the communists claim they can.

What have we done to our representative institutions, to our law and order agencies, to our education; to our growing population?

Mithan rallied against sexism within the legal profession by asking “how can a woman be declared unfit without even being given a trial?”

Is there a Middle Way between Capitalism and Socialism, between the Price Mechanism and Planning, between Efficiency and Equity?

Mehta’s advocacy of local self-governance and moderation in politics though had to face challenges from the political extremism of Tilak which demanded “poorna swaraj”.

Indian concept of a welfare state was a minimum state. It was wholly antagonistic to a garrison police state.

In his resort to rational argumentation, use of pamphlets to persuade public opinion and submission of a petition to the government, Vidyasagar emerges as a quintessential classical liberal.

"An extraordinarily intelligent man, I think the cleverest Indian in debate I have yet seen." 

Mulji’s reform agenda was “not simply about liberating liberal subjects but rather about producing them.”