Centre of South Asian Studies: Seminars

Dr Taylor Sherman - Was postcolonial India ever socialist? Ideas, policy and practice, 1947-64


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Dr Sherman, of the London School of Economics, examines one of the pillars of Nehruvian India: socialism. She demonstrates how India had, by 1960, developed its own distinctive brand of socialism and socialist thought and how this more 'individualistic' socialism shaped Indian society, politics and economy.
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Centre of South Asian Studies: SeminarsBy Cambridge University