constitutional liberal
Morarji Desai
1896–1995
How Morarji Desai is discussed in this archive
Referenced in 11 other works , including An Inflationary Budget , The Missed Opportunity , and Industrial Relations .
In Industrial Relations : Cited as Prime Minister and addressee of Charan Singh's June 1979 note opposing bonus for railwaymen — positioning Desai's cabinet as the political setting for the Janata-era labour-law and bonus disputes the pamphlet covers.
In Rural Development is Key to Welfare of the Masses : Doshi cites Morarji Desai's Janata government as evidence of the pragmatic, anti-control turn he endorses as a corrective to two decades of mismanagement.
In Discrimination Between the Two Sectors : Master cites Finance Minister Morarji Desai's own admissions in Parliament that public-sector units must earn adequate returns, using the government's own statements to expose the hypocrisy of denying the private sector equal treatment.
In A REVIEW OF THE FINANCE (No. 2) BILL, 1962 : Morarji Desai's abolition of the Expenditure Tax is praised as an act of 'great courage and independent thinking', held up as the positive counterexample to the Finance Bill's unjust capital-gains provisions.
In An Open Letter to L.I.C. : Peregrine traces the LIC's target-chasing culture back to Morarji Desai's 1959 Lok Sabha exhortation to reach Rs.
Mentioned in (65)
Primary works (62)
- Freedom First · 1997
- Union Budget 1990-91 Will Not Solve Economic Problems · 1990
- Freedom First · 1983
- Freedom First · 1983
- Freedom First · 1981
- Freedom First · 1981
- Regional Cooperation in South Asia · 1981
- Freedom First · 1980
- Freedom First · 1979
- Freedom First · 1979
- Freedom First · 1979
- Freedom First · 1979
- Industrial Relations · 1979
- "a note from the then Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Mr. Charan Singh, addressed to Prime Minister Morarji Desai, opposing the grant of bonus to railwaymen" · frames the bonus controversy at the apex of the Janata cabinet
- Freedom First · 1978
- Freedom First · 1978
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Excerpts (3)
- National Priorities for 1970
- "I am very glad, therefore, that a strong opponent of coalitions like Mr Morarji Desai has now veered around to the view that coalitions are now inevitable." · Desai's reversal supplies the political evidence for Masani's coalitions-thesis
- Sikkim – Through Other Eyes
- "I was glad when Mr. Morarji Desai, Prime Minister of India some years later, admitted that he could not justify the taking over of Sikkim." · Desai's admission used to validate Masani's earlier objection to the annexation
- The Missed Opportunity
- "Even Sri Morarji Desai did not wish to join the Cabinet till he was offered the incentive of a Deputy Prime Ministership." · Desai cited to illustrate the universal human need for incentives, applying the principle even to senior politicians
- "Mr Morarji Desai says that he would like to rehabilitate his confidence, but he has not taken any steps for it." · Desai criticised for rhetorical acknowledgement of the inflation problem without substantive policy action