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Jayaprakash Narayan

1902–1979

Also known as: JP, JP Narayan, Jaya Prakash Narayan, Jai Prakash Narayan, Lok Nayak, जयप्रकाश नारायण, जे. पी. नारायण, জয়প্রকাশ নারায়ণ

How Jayaprakash Narayan is discussed in this archive

Authored 11 works in the archive.

Referenced in 22 other works , including The Indian Libertarian , Towards Party-less Democracy , and The Early Years, Emergency Era and Tryst with Civil Services .

In The Early Years, Emergency Era and Tryst with Civil Services : The speaker explicitly invokes 'Lok Nayak JP' as the movement leader he and other young people were prepared to follow without question — this matches the authority list's jayaprakash-narayan entry whose aliases include 'Lok Nayak' and 'JP'.

In Economic Prophecies : JP appears twice — once as a hypothetical Gandhian prime minister whose moral authority would still be insufficient to reverse the planning-era damage without structural reform, and once as an 'ostensible friend' of free enterprise whose support Shenoy finds inconsistent.

In Fifty Years After ... : Jayaprakash Narayan is listed by E.

In Inflation & Economic Growth : Iengar repeatedly returns to JP Narayan's appeal for moral renewal as the ethical foil to his diagnosis of administrative decay and political corruption.

In A NEW ECONOMIC POLICY FOR INDIA : Jayaprakash Narayan's disenchantment with planning is cited alongside other prominent figures to demonstrate that dissatisfaction with the Soviet-style model has become cross-ideological.

By Jayaprakash Narayan (11)

Primary works (10)

Excerpts (1)

Mentioned in (202)

Primary works (191)

  • Liberalism and the Challenge of Polarisation · 2020
    • "I think it's a challenge, as of that. I would not like to minimize the challenge. I'm a great optimist." · Opening framing of the monologue
    • "I think the most important principle that we have ignored in India in fighting polarization is that ultimately individuation politics of individuation." · Stating his central thesis
  • The Challenges for Liberal Grassroots Movements · 2020
    • "the biggest challenge for me was twofold" · Framing the central problem he confronted as movement founder.
    • "For about ten, twelve years, I traveled every single day. I must have addressed, at least at the very least, about 10,000 gatherings" · Describing his own mobilisation effort.
  • The Early Years, Emergency Era and Tryst with Civil Services · 2020
    • "the movements that arose out of the anger against the misgovernance and failed governance and missed opportunities resulted in Nav Nirman Samiti in Gujarat, then Lok Nayak JP movement, Chhatra Sangharsh Samiti in Bihar" · Naming the JP movement as part of the 1974-75 ferment
    • "If Lok Nayak JP or somebody said, you jump off from the 3rd floor hospital of yours, and that'll help the country in some way or the other, I would have gladly jumped off." · Conveying the emotional pull JP exerted on young activists
  • The Hope for a Liberal Political Alternative · 2020
    • "When we founded a political party, it was with great reluctance because I'm not a — by now, you would have realized over the past twenty years that I'm not a combative person" · Self-identifies as founder of the political formation (Lok Satta) reflecting on twenty years of public life.
    • "While Lok Satta is very lucky, singularly fortunate perhaps in the country and perhaps even in the world in achieving significant outcomes — three constitutional amendments, seven or eight major laws, four or five major policy changes in the country" · Speaks from within Lok Satta about its institutional achievements.
  • The Relationship Between Citizen and State · 2020
    • "In this #IndianLiberals monologue, Dr. Jaya Prakash Narayana ( Founder, Lok Satta Movement) discusses the liberalism's larger philosophy i.e. the relationship between Citizen and State" · Editorial description identifying the speaker
    • "I'm now 64 years old. I'm pretty healthy, I believe." · First-person reference establishing the speaker's voice throughout the monologue
  • Economic Prophecies · 2004
    • "Shenoy closes by arguing that even a Gandhian government — with J P Narayan or Vinoba Bhave as prime minister — could not correct the chaos without a thorough restructuring of policies including heavy cuts in public-sector outlays." · JP invoked as a moral-authority limit case — even his leadership would be inadequate without policy restructuring
    • "The essay documents how the Swatantra Party, Jayaprakash Narayan, and M R Masani — ostensibly friends of free enterprise — nevertheless hedged their support for the business community." · JP is criticised for hedged defence of entrepreneurial freedom
  • Freedom First · 1998
  • Fifty Years After ... · 1997
    • "citing Gandhi, J.P. Narayan, and M. N. Roy as models." · Narayan cited as one of three rational-poverty-leadership exemplars D'Souza invokes
  • Freedom First · 1996
  • Freedom First · 1995
  • Freedom First · 1995
  • Freedom First · 1995
  • Freedom First · 1994
  • Freedom First · 1992
  • Freedom First · 1990
  • …and 176 more

Opinion pieces (1)

  • Minoo Masani : From Socialism to Liberal Swatantra Party
    • "As a young admirer of the USSR experiment and an advocate of democratic socialism, Minoo worked with Jayaprakash Narayan and Nehru to turn Congress towards the left in the 1930s." · identifies JP as Masani's early socialist collaborator
    • "A group of socialists including JP, Achut Patwardhan, and Ashok Mehta were among the political prisoners in the Nashik jail. Minoo Masani's discussions with JP paved the way for an anti-imperial socialist outfit within the Congress party." · credits their jail conversations with catalysing the CSP

Excerpts (9)

  • A Resilient Soul: Ramadevi Chowdhuri
    • "Her childhood was influenced by freedom fighters and thinkers like Mahatma Gandhi, Vinoba Bhave, Sri Aurobindo, and JP Narayan." · JP Narayan is named as one of the thinkers who inspired Chowdhuri's activism
  • Free Enterprise in Danger - B.R. Shenoy
    • "even a hypothetical government of Gandhian ascetics - with J.P. Narayan or Vinoba Bhave as prime minister - could make no significant difference to these developments under the prevailing 'schizophrenic policies'" · Shenoy's argument that the problem is structural, not a matter of leadership character
  • Free Enterprise in India: A Call for Leadership - A.D. Shroff, 1961
    • "Mr Jayaprakash Narayan, a founder of socialist movement in India, is thoroughly disillusioned about nationalisation, one of the main planks of doctrinaire socialism." · Narayan's conversion from nationalisation is Shroff's rhetorical proof that economic common sense is winning over honest socialists
  • Sikkim – Through Other Eyes
    • "The camp boasted the likes of Jayprakash Narayan, C Rajagopalachari, and Minoo Masani." · JP named as one of three dissidents against Indian imperial overreach
    • "Masani questioned the double standards of his compatriots on the 'Indian imperialism', dubbed JP the 'real anti-imperialist'" · Masani specifically singles out JP as the authentic anti-imperialist voice in Indian politics
  • THE DANGERS OF JOINT CO-OPERATIVE FARMING
    • "In Koraput, Acharya Vinobha Bhave and Mr. Jaya Prakash Narayan tried to ask the local people to cultivate them as a village and not to ask for distribution of the land. Mr. Jaya Prakash confessed that this experiment had not succeeded" · JP's admission of failure in the cooperative experiment cited as evidence
    • "Shri Jaya Prakash Narayan has said in Banaras that co-operative farming in today's context means creating "puppets in the hands of officials."" · JP quoted directly as an opponent of cooperative farming
  • The Essence of Democracy
    • "Such were the disconcerting sentiments expressed by Shri Jayaprakash Narayan, the PSP leader, in the course of his whirlwind tour of Gujarat in support of Vinoba's Bhoodan Movement." · JP named as the source of the argument that prompts the editorial response
    • "Perhaps it is a mistake to always imagine that in a democracy there should be a ruling party and an opposition party." · JP's own words quoted verbatim at the opening of the editorial
  • The Universality of Human Values - M.R. Masani
    • "Only last month Jayaprakash Narayan wrote: "For many years I have worshipped at the shrine of the goddess Dialectical Materialism" · Masani cites JP's rejection of materialism as corroboration for the universality of non-material values
  • The Universality Of Human Values
    • "Only last month Jayaprakash Narayan wrote, "For many years I have worshipped at the shrine of the goddess Dialectical Materialism" · JP's conversion from materialism cited as evidence that non-material values transcend ideology
  • Towards Party-less Democracy
    • "Mr. Jayaprakash Narayan is mobilising public opinion by means of seminars and the circulation of concrete proposals among uncommitted thinkers" · introduction of JP as the active champion bringing the idea into public discourse
    • "Mr. Narayan's suggestion is that of jettisoning the party altogether" · JP's core proposal stated directly

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