The Indian Libertarian

Summary

This is the 15 January 1959 issue (Vol. VI, No. 21) of The Indian Libertarian, the Bombay fortnightly subtitled ‘Independent Journal of Free Economy and Public Affairs’, edited by Kusum Lotwala. In the rendered pages the issue opens with an editorial trio dominated by foreign policy: ‘Pak Menace’ and ‘Blood Pledge by General Ayub Khan’ read Pakistan’s post-coup posture toward Kashmir as a standing military threat, while ‘Masses and Communism’ worries that economic distress leaves Indian masses open to communist appeals. The lead signed articles develop the journal’s classical-liberal line: M. A. Venkata Rao’s ‘The Third Five Year Plan’ attacks deficit-financed central planning and argues for releasing private enterprise from state controls, and M. N. Tholal’s ‘The Decline of Democracy’ contends that parliamentary forms are hollowing out under one-party dominance and bureaucratic centralisation. Shorter pieces continue the anti-communist, anti-Pakistan register — J. K. Dhairyawan’s ‘Our “Buddhistic” Imbecility & Pak Aggression’ and Baburao Patel’s reprinted ‘From The Frying Pan Into The Fire’ on Kashmir — alongside a ‘Did You Know’ cartoon strip and a Thomas Paine quotation boxed under ‘Revolution Without Reason’. The feature articles listed in the ‘IN THIS ISSUE’ box (Comte’s Religion of Humanity, ‘Justice and Charity’, the Libertarian Supplement, news and review columns) begin on page 13 and beyond and were not in the rendered set.

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