The Indian Libertarian

Summary

In the rendered pages, this 1 April 1959 issue of The Indian Libertarian (Vol. VII No. 1) — the Bombay fortnightly ‘for free economy and libertarian democracy’ edited by Miss Kusum Lotwala — leads with an unsigned editorial on India’s external crises (the Kashmir and canal-waters disputes, the US-Pakistan military pact and the American Ambassador’s reassurances, the Communist party’s ‘Hate America’ campaign, and a contested transfer of the Sherabati hydro-electric project). The bylined articles in the rendered pages press the journal’s anti-planning, anti-Communist line: M. A. Venkata Rao argues for a new opposition party built on free-economy principles; J. K. Dhairyawan attacks state planning as a ‘Marxist euphemism for bungling’; and M. N. Tholal reviews Maulana Abul Kalam Azad’s India Wins Freedom under the title ‘The Genesis of Pakistan.’ A four-page Libertarian Supplement (with ‘A Reader’s Miscellany’ of liberal aphorisms) and shorter features round out the issue. In the rendered pages the later articles listed in the contents — Kumara Sekhar on ‘Socialism and Mr. Nehru’, William Henry Chamberlin on ‘Khrushchev’s Bogus Challenge’, and T. L. Kantam on ‘Revolt in Central Africa’ — appear only in the contents box and supplement matter, not as fully rendered article text.

Essays

Building a new Party

By MA Venkata Rao

M. A. Venkata Rao calls for the construction of a new opposition party in India, arguing that the scattered anti-Congress forces need a coherent platform rather than a mere coalition of grievances. He warns that a party ‘becoming Communist’ is the danger to avoid, and presses for leadership and an organisation grounded in free-economy and democratic principles, social justice secured through free economy, and a programme capable of winning the masses away from socialist promises.

• Argues a wide consensus exists for a new opposition party in India.
• Insists the new party rest on free-economy and democratic principles, not opportunist coalition.
• Warns against the party drifting toward Communism.
• Links social justice to a free economy rather than state planning.

Planning is Marxist Euphemism for bungling, Chaos and Confusion

By J. K. Dhairyawan

J. K. Dhairyawan’s polemic, ‘Planning is Marxist Euphemism for Bungling, Chaos and Confusion,’ attacks the rhetoric of economic planning as a verbal disguise for socialism. He treats ‘planning’ as one of a family of euphemistic words by which collectivist policy is sold to the public, contending that the planned economy in practice produces shortages, regimentation, and confusion rather than the prosperity it promises.

• Frames ‘planning’ as a euphemism masking a Marxist programme.
• Opens a section titled ‘The tyranny of words’ on collectivist rhetoric.
• Argues planning yields bungling, chaos and confusion in practice.

The Genesis of Pakisan

By M. N. Tholal

M. N. Tholal’s ‘The Genesis of Pakistan’ reads Maulana Abul Kalam Azad’s memoir India Wins Freedom to trace how Partition came about, weighing the Congress leadership’s choices and the politics of the Muslim League against Azad’s account. The discussion engages the roles of Congress and of figures such as Maulana Mohammad Ismail in the run-up to Pakistan’s creation.

• Built around a reading of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad’s ‘India Wins Freedom’.
• Examines Congress decisions and Muslim League politics behind Partition.
• Headline misprints ‘Pakistan’ as ‘Pakisan’.

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