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Networking Indian liberalism

India Policy Institute is a policy think tank that aims to promote policies of freedom in India.

 

Started in 1998 as a policy debate forum, it will now (in 2009) primarily become a publisher of policy monographs and journals.

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1) National Seminar on liberal political strategy, 2004

India’s Liberal Political Strategy: 2004 and beyond. Some Pictures from 8 January 2004

A 5-day workshop-cum-seminar on this topic was successfully held in January 2004, in Delhi

Details of the Workshop and Seminar

Summary report on Workshop (Word doc)

Why Swatanatra Bharat Party? by Sanjeev (Word doc)

Message from the Workshop (Word doc)

Sharad Joshi's speech   (Word doc)

Gurcharan Das’s speech (Word doc)

How you can help (Word doc)

  

2) People’s Manifesto, 2000

The following documents were prepared through public debate in 2000

a) People’s Manifesto Word:220 KB

b) Constitution of an ideal Party

c)  Plan of Action

 

3) Publications

Publications of IPI (mostly to 2004)

  

4) Electronic Panchayat (currently not active)

   

National Debate on System Reform   
A Guided Tour | Debate archives since March 1998  

  

5) Youth Mentoring Project (currently not active)

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In this web site “liberal” is used in its European or ‘classical’ sense, broadly epitomized by a preference for minimal and dispersed government, rather than in its current American sense which indicates the opposite preference for an extension and concentration of governmental powers. 

 

 

India Policy was hosted free of charge from 1998-mid-2003 by Suresh Rajagopalan. It is now hosted by Sanjeev Sabhlok