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About

A modern home for the Indian liberal tradition.

Indian Liberals is a digital archive of primary works by historically significant Indian liberal thinkers, alongside thinker profiles, organisation pages, curated excerpts (“musings”), opinion pieces, interviews, and a federated feed from ThePrint’s “Indian Liberals Matter” column.

The archive is maintained by the Centre for Civil Society. The site you are reading was rebuilt by Thothica using the same architectural template that powers Falsafa and Liberty Lighthouse.

What you’ll find here

Eight content kinds, organised in two tiers.

Tier A Clean content
Musings Curated excerpts from the primary works. Opinions First-party commentary and feature essays. Interviews Oral histories and historic recorded addresses. Thinkers Profiles of the people in the tradition. Organisations The institutions that carried the movement. From ThePrint A federated mirror of the ThePrint column.
Tier B Primary sources
Primary works Books, pamphlets, essays, and speeches. Periodicals Complete runs, indexed issue by issue.

With gratitude

The people who built this archive

The content of this archive was assembled with the generous help of volunteers — scholars, archivists, and friends of the tradition who gave their time, their expertise, and their access to rare material. We are grateful to each of them.

  • Asantha Sirimanne Capital Media, Colombo
  • Bruce Caldwell Duke University
  • Carol A Leadenham Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University
  • Chandrasekaran Balakrishnan Chennai
  • D R Pendse Centre for Economic Policy Advice, Mumbai
  • G P Manish Troy University
  • J R Jayewardene Centre Colombo
  • Kumar Anand Centre for Civil Society, New Delhi
  • Minoo Shroff A D Shroff Memorial Trust, Mumbai
  • Mohammad Anas Khan Centre for Civil Society, New Delhi
  • Nanaji G Shewale Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune
  • Nupur Hasija Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, New Delhi
  • Rajas Parchure Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune
  • S Divakara Forum of Free Enterprise, Mumbai
  • S V Raju Freedom First, Mumbai
  • Saurabh Modi Hansraj College, New Delhi
  • Sunil Bhandare Tata Strategic Management Group, Mumbai
  • Sureshchandra Mhatre Shetkari Sanghatana, Pune
  • Swati Kapadia Forum of Free Enterprise, Mumbai
  • Weerakoon Wijewardena ex-Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Sri Lanka

For researchers and AI agents

Every HTML page has a markdown sibling at the same URL with .md appended. The curated index lives at /llms.txt; the full archive (every Tier A piece in full, every Tier B summary) lives at /llms-full.txt. The schema, citation rules, and tier system are documented at /AGENTS.md.

A Model Context Protocol server at mcp.indianliberals.in exposes eight tools that return text and structure. The host LLM (whichever client you use) does the reasoning; the server stays simple.

Citation

Tier A pieces carry paragraph-stable IDs of the form #p-xxxxxx, deep-link citable. Tier B primary-work claims should be attributed at summary-level to Indian Liberals and link directly to the PDF for the underlying source. The full citation policy is in /AGENTS.md.