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Workshop from 5-8 January 2004 to determine

 

“India's Liberal Political Strategy: 2004 and beyond”

 

RECOMMENDED READING MATERIAL PRIOR TO THE WORKSHOP (draft)

Making a mockery of Indian Democracy (SV Raju |  Writ Petition to High Court (SV Raju) | Plea by Sanjeev Sabhlok to Supreme Court 1999 (page 1 | page 2)

 

Working together successfully:

Indians are admittedly unskilled at working together. But that is a - sometimes missing - skill, not a hereditary trait. It can be learnt. These are some of the group skills we need.

Indian organizational ability (extract from Party Building in a New Nation: The Indian National Congress by Myron Weiner. University of Chicago Press. 1967).

GROUP INTELLIGENCE. (Extract from p. 160-163, Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Bantam. 1995.)

 

Strategic analysis

Strategic analysis (PPT document) 350 KB  by Sanjeev Sabhlok, Version 0.11 6 October 2003

Economic analysis of political representation (van der Doel) Word doc, 80KB

 

Liberalism

Liberal chain of thought

Liberalism by Minoo Masani (from http://www.liberalsindia.com/)

 The greatest obligation of a liberal

 

Indian liberalism

Important articles on Indian liberalism

Fifty years of India: a journey in time by Ashok V Desai, Consultant Editor, The Telegraph

 

Indian history

From “SUBJECT INDIA” by Henry Noel Brailsford. Victor Gollancz Ltd. London, 1943 (Word document)

 

On Jinnah from “SUBJECT INDIA” by Henry Noel Brailsford (Word doc)

 

The Western Wind by Bret Wallach (Word doc)

 Sunderland: Nationalist movement in India

 

Two chapters from ,  The Soul of Indian History, by S.R.Sharma, Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, 1969.

 

Swatantra Party

Some articles and notes on Swantantra Party and Rajaji

 Lessons from the Party

 

Congress Party

Party Building in a New Nation: The Indian National Congress by Myron Weiner. University of Chicago Press. 1967 (2 chapters)

 

 

How to run campaigns

An excellent guide from Michigan State University Extension  (580KB)

 

 

Electronic copy not available

Documents on Indian Liberalism ? Speeches and Writings of Surendra Nath Banerjea, Dadabhai Naoroji, and Gopal Krishna Gokhale. In K. P. Karunakaran, ed., Modern Indian Political Tradition. New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 1962.  pp. 31-122. (2)

Electronic copy not available

Address Presented to Lord Minto, Viceroy of India, on 1 October 1906, by a delegation of Muslims led by the Aga Khan. In K. P. Karunakaran, ed., Modern Indian Political Tradition. New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 1962.  pp. 277-286

 

 

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