Periodicals
Most of this archive was not published as one-off books. It came out in runs: a fortnightly journal, a booklet series that lasted fifty years, a budget analysis every spring, a memorial lecture every autumn. Read in sequence they show an argument being made and remade over decades. Choose a run to browse it; every item links its original PDF.
1335 works · 11 runs
Booklet series, lectures & annual analyses
598 works · 5 runs
Forum of Free Enterprise Booklets
587 works · 1956–2019 · 5 sub-series
The longest continuous run in the archive. Founded in Bombay in 1956 by A. D. Shroff, the Forum of Free Enterprise argued the case for the market economy to a country then settling into planning, and it did so chiefly through a stream of slim saddle-stitched booklets — a lecture, a budget analysis, a panel discussion — printed cheaply and posted to members and student associates for a few rupees a year. Between 1956 and 2019 the Forum issued hundreds of them, drawing in Palkhivala, Masani, B. R. Shenoy, Colin Clark, Hayek and Friedman alongside bankers, industrialists and civil servants. The booklets are not serially numbered: the colophon on the back page carries the printing date rather than a booklet number, so the run is ordered chronologically.
- Lecture series
A. D. Shroff Memorial Lecture
49 works · 1966–2016
- Annual analysis
The Union Budget
45 works · 1968–2018
- Lecture series
Bhogilal Leherchand Memorial Lecture
9 works · 1998–2018
- Lecture series
Nani A. Palkhivala Memorial Lecture
2 works · 2009–2011
- Booklet series
Builders of Indian Economy
1 work · 1990
The Liberal Budget
4 works · 2004–2007
The Indian Liberal Group's answer to the Union Budget: an alternative budget drafted from liberal first principles and published each year in the mid-2000s, arguing for lower and simpler taxes, a smaller state, and reforms aimed squarely at the poor. Where the Forum's budget booklets critique what the finance minister did, these propose what a liberal government would have done instead.
Liberty Institute Occasional Paper
3 works · 2003–2008
Occasional papers from the Liberty Institute, New Delhi, applying market reasoning to concrete Indian policy questions — urban land and housing, automobility, the effect of globalisation on the poor. Longer and more research-shaped than a pamphlet, shorter than a book.
CCS Viewpoint
2 works
A numbered run of short argumentative pamphlets from the Centre for Civil Society in New Delhi, each making a single contrarian case at essay length — that population causes prosperity, that Peter Bauer was a true friend of the world's poor. Written for circulation rather than the seminar room, they mark the arrival of a younger, campaigning liberalism after 1997.
Selections from 'The Indian Libertarian'
2 works · 1971–1981
A retrospective anthology issued in parts, gathering essays from the Bombay fortnightly The Indian Libertarian after its run had ended. The parts are the editors' own attempt to preserve the magazine's argument once the magazine itself had stopped — read alongside the full issue run under Periodicals.
Magazines & journals
737 issues · 6 runs, indexed issue by issue
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The Indian Libertarian
159 issues · 1957–1973
The Bombay fortnightly of the Libertarian Social Institute, published on the 1st and 15th of each month: classical-liberal and libertarian commentary on Indian politics and economics through the Nehruvian decades.
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Khoj ખોજ
21 issues · 2005–2010
A bi-monthly Gujarati liberal periodical published from Vadodara under the 'Pahel: Initiative for Open Society', explicitly anchored in the thought of Karl Popper and Friedrich Hayek. The first sustained attempt to debate free markets, poverty, and open-society ideas in Gujarati print.
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Shetkari Sanghatak शेतकरी संघटक
53 issues · 1991–1995
The Marathi organ of Sharad Joshi's Shetkari Sanghatana, the farmers' movement that argued the case for market freedom from the fields rather than the seminar room.
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Liberal Times
2 issues · 1995
A South Asian liberal-affairs magazine published from New Delhi in the 1990s, carrying essays on liberal politics and policy across the region.
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Freedom First
500 issues · 1952–2013
The English-language liberal monthly founded in 1952 by Minoo Masani and the Democratic Research Service, one of India's longest-running liberal journals, making the case for individual liberty and the market economy through and beyond the licence-permit raj.
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The Liberal Position
2 issues · 2001–2002
The newsletter of the Indian Liberal Group, the Mumbai-based network that carried the organised liberal tradition forward, circulating classical-liberal commentary to members and fellow travellers.
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