The Dilemma of an Indian Liberal Quotes

“Individuals thus acquire a right to property by their labour. By means of this right, they sustain the most important of all rights— the right to life. Through this logic, the right to property became a central doctrine of liberalism.”
― Gurcharan Das, The Dilemma of an Indian Liberal

“What matters in the end is conduct, not belief.”
― Gurcharan Das, The Dilemma of an Indian Liberal

“Both the left and the right take the state to be the new locus of that community—in contrast to the liberal conception of the state as a neutral arbiter of private rights.”
― Gurcharan Das, The Dilemma of an Indian Liberal

“Even more depressing was the realisation that illiberal statism is still India’s reigning ideology 30 years after the 1991 reforms.”
― Gurcharan Das, The Dilemma of an Indian Liberal

“28 milestones—these are moments of liberal awakenings, lessons, and predicaments. One of these is a tale of conversion at Milestone 11, which recounts how a victim of Nehru’s License Raj changes from a socialist to a liberal and joins the Swatantra Party.”
― Gurcharan Das, The Dilemma of an Indian Liberal