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Let me explain this topic first. Let's start with a quote from Sanjeev Sanyal:

"The Left dominance over the intellectual establishment has its roots in the systematic “ethnic cleansing” of all non-Left thinkers since the 1950s. One of its early victims was liberal economist B.R. Shenoy who questioned Nehru’s economics. He was squeezed out of the establishment and persecuted, but continued to write against socialist planning. ... The result of the systematic cleansing was that there were no non-Left academics remaining in the social sciences field in India by the early 1990s. ... Since the 1990s, the more explicitly Soviet-derived material has been removed from curriculums, but they remain heavily dominated by the Left. Thus, economics students are mostly taught material written by Amartya Sen and his stable of academics but exposed only in passing to the thoughts of Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman or Jagdish Bhagwati, Sen’s intellectual rival. Even when non-Left thinkers are included, their ideas are lumped together as exotic curiosities to be critiqued, rather than imbibed. Shenoy is still deemed too dangerous to be taught widely. The situation is much worse in other disciplines like sociology and history."

http://www.sanjeevsanyal.com/home/article_detail/86

While the focus of Sanyal's article is DU and JNU, the problem he identifies is also very much true for NLUs and places like JGLS. In economics, most our profs teach Sen but not Bhagwati. In sociology, many of our profs include Kancha Ilaiah's writings (which are full of factual errors) and some actually glorify Periyar (who Nehru had called a "lunatic"). Among Western thinkers, most profs teach Marx and Foucault. In history, the list goes Althusser, Hobsbawm, Bipan Chandra etc.

So there's obviously a serous gaping hole that needs to be bridged. Ideally, reading materials by non-left thinkers should replace/complement those above. If the left establishment resists, then students can form their own Study Circles. Below is a suggested reading list. Looking forward to your suggestions to expand it.

GENERAL READING:

1. Nani Palkhivala, We the People

2. Nani Palkhivala, We the Nation

3. JS Mill, On Liberty

4. Lee Kuan Yew, The Singapore Story

5. Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements

6. Margaret Thatcher, Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World

7. Ayn Rand, For The New Intellectual

8. George Orwell, 1984

ECONOMICS:

1. Bhagwati, In Defence of Globalisation

2. Panagariya and Bhagwati, Why Growth Matters

3. Milton Friedman, Why Government is the Problem

4. Milton Friedman, Free to Choose

5. Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics

6. BR Shenoy, Indian Economic Crisis: A Programme for Reform

7. Richard Posner, The Economics of Justice

HISTORY:

1. RC Majumdar, Historiography in Modern India

2. Jadunath Sarkar, India through the Ages

3. Arun Shourie, Eminent Historians

4. Sanjeev Sanyal, Revolutionaries

5. General readings on the collapse of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, on North Korea, Mao etc.

SOCIOLOGY:

1. Thomas Sowell, Social Justice Fallacies

2. Majority judgement in Students For Fair Admission v Harvard

3. Dissenting judgment in Indra Sawhney v Union of India

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