While most electoral contests today are waged in the battlefield of cultural ideas, the free markets vs centrism debate was firmly set at the centre of the early Indian republic's mainstream political discourse. In fact, free markets served as the raison d'etre of the Swatantra Party, deemed as the first classical liberal party in the nation's political history. Prof Aditya Balasubramanian (Australian National University), author of "Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India" to help deep dive into that era, to understand what the Swatantra experiment's enduring influence upon Indian politics is. #thecoffeehouseexperience #englishpodcast #DrAdityaBalasubramanian #RevisitingtheDawnofMarketLiberalisminIndia #AcademicPodcastYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@theco....ffeehouseexperienceF https://www.facebook.com/coffeehouseexpRSS Feed: https://rss.com/podcasts/theco....ffeehouseexperience/ https://spoti.fi/3P75RSNAmazon Music: https://amzn.to/3Z9dsVn