The NLS Public Lecture Series | Discussion on the Book ‘Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India’

This Thursday’s public lecture will feature a conversation between faculty member Sushmita Pati and Aditya Balasubramanian, author of the newly released book, Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India (Princeton University Press, 2023). The conversation will be followed by a Q&A session.

Speaker: Dr. Aditya Balasubramanian, Senior Lecturer in History, Australian National University.

Aditya Balasubramanian is a Senior Lecturer in History at ANU’s College of Arts and Social Sciences. His research focuses on various aspects of the history of modern South Asia. His first book, Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India (Princeton University Press, 2023), is a history of economic ideas and politics. It was shortlisted for the 2023 Elder Prize in the Social Sciences of the American Institute of Indian Studies, and has won much critical acclaim. Aditya completed his PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge as a British Marshall Scholar and a Cambridge Trust Scholar. His dissertation won the Ellen McArthur Prize in Economic History and was shortlisted for the Prince Consort and Thirlwall Prize for best dissertation in the Faculty of History.