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Sir Homi Mody

How Sir Homi Mody is discussed in this archive

Authored 1 work in the archive.

Subject of 1 profile piece — including Homi Mody’s Liberalism: From Pro-Business to Pro-Market .

Referenced in 3 other works — including A Review of Current Economic Problems , Piloo Mody: Swatantra’s Witty Parliamentarian , and Swatantra Party : A Big Tent Challenge to Congress Hegemony .

In A Review of Current Economic Problems : Sir H.

In Piloo Mody: Swatantra’s Witty Parliamentarian : Homi Mody is mentioned as Piloo Mody's father and identified as a venerable Parsi entrepreneur, contextualising Piloo's social background.

In Swatantra Party : A Big Tent Challenge to Congress Hegemony : Homi Mody is listed as one of the core Swatantra leadership group, identified as a leading voice of the Bombay business community.

By Sir Homi Mody (1)

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About Sir Homi Mody (1)

Profile pieces (1)

  • Homi Mody’s Liberalism: From Pro-Business to Pro-Market
    • "Temperamentally liberal and a constitutionalist, Homi Mody straddled the public life in both colonial and Independent India as a member of two outsized minority groupings, i.e. big business and Parsis" — establishes his dual minority identity and liberal temperament as the defining features of his public persona
    • "It is in his advocacy of Indian industrial interests that Mody takes an illiberal turn" — the essay's frank acknowledgement of his protectionist contradiction within his liberal profile

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Primary works (1)

  • A Review of Current Economic Problems · 1965
    • "Sir H. P. Mody opens with a polemic against the planning apparatus itself" — Mody's essay is the opening statement of the booklet's classical-liberal post-mortem on Indian planning
    • "Mody warns that unless the obsession with 'gigantism' is abandoned in favour of consolidation and realism, the Third Plan target of food self-sufficiency by 1981 will be a fresh casualty of the same mindset." — Mody's central warning about planning's self-perpetuating cycle of failure

Opinion pieces (2)