Economist Bibek Debroy has recounted how Columbia University economist Jagdish Bhagwati was ‘essentially made to leave’ the Delhi School of Economics in the 1950s.60 As economist Sanjeev Sanyal has written: The Left dominance over the intellectual establishment has its roots in the systematic ‘ethnic cleansing’ of all non-Left thinkers since the 1950s … the result of the systemic cleansing was that there were no non-Left academics remaining in the social sciences field in India by the early 1990s … there needs to be a wider national debate about bringing greater plurality of thought in India’s
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