The Indian Libertarian

Summary

This is the May 15, 1958 issue (Vol. VI, No. 5) of The Indian Libertarian, a twice-monthly Bombay ‘Independent Journal of Economic and Public Affairs’ incorporating the ‘Free Economic Review,’ edited by Miss Kusum Lotwala under the banner ‘We stand for free economy and libertarian democracy.’ In the rendered pages the issue is built around a sustained critique of Nehru and Congress governance — J. K. Dhairyawan on ‘Our Topsy-Turvy Prime Minister,’ a note on ‘Nehru’s Failure,’ G. B. Verghese on ‘The Hamletian Nehru,’ Raja Hutheesing’s ‘Oh, Weep for Adonis,’ and ‘Vivek’ on the ills of the Congress — alongside foreign-affairs alarm (‘War With India Is Inevitable’ by ‘Vigilant’), M. A. Venkata Rao’s defence of economic freedom, an economic supplement, and a polemic that ‘Free Education Is A Fraud.’ Its argumentative center is classical-liberal: hostility to one-party Congress dominance and state planning, and a defence of economic and political liberty against socialist and communist tendencies.

Essays

Our Topsy-Turvy Prime Minister

By J. K. Dhairyawan

J. K. Dhairyawan’s ‘Our Topsy-Turvy Prime Minister’ is a critical portrait of Nehru’s leadership, charging him with inconsistency and a confusion of liberal professions with statist practice. In the rendered pages it sets the issue’s anti-Nehru tone, faulting the Prime Minister’s handling of democracy and economic policy.

• Critical portrait of Nehru as inconsistent and contradictory.
• Faults the gap between his liberal rhetoric and statist practice.
• Opens the issue’s sustained critique of Nehru and Congress.
• Frames the Prime Minister as ‘topsy-turvy’ in judgement.

Economic Freedom

By MA Venkata Rao

M. A. Venkata Rao’s ‘Economic Freedom’ mounts a defence of economic liberty against socialism and class-war politics, arguing that freedom of thought, feeling, and labour are bound together and threatened by the leftward drift of Indian economic policy. In the rendered pages it warns against the Russian model and the pitting of class against class, defending private enterprise as the basis of a free society.

• Defends economic freedom as inseparable from intellectual freedom.
• Attacks socialism and class-war politics.
• Warns against the Russian/Soviet economic model.
• Casts private enterprise as the foundation of a free society.

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