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Jayaprakash Narayan

1902–1979

Also known as: JP, JP Narayan, Jaya Prakash Narayan, Jai Prakash Narayan, Lok Nayak, जयप्रकाश नारायण, जे. पी. नारायण, জয়প্রকাশ নারায়ণ

How Jayaprakash Narayan is discussed in this archive

Authored 1 work in the archive.

Referenced in 21 other works — including The Indian Libertarian , Towards Party-less Democracy , and Economic Prophecies .

In Economic Prophecies : JP appears twice — once as a hypothetical Gandhian prime minister whose moral authority would still be insufficient to reverse the planning-era damage without structural reform, and once as an 'ostensible friend' of free enterprise whose support Shenoy finds inconsistent.

In Fifty Years After ... : Jayaprakash Narayan is listed by E.

In Inflation & Economic Growth : Iengar repeatedly returns to JP Narayan's appeal for moral renewal as the ethical foil to his diagnosis of administrative decay and political corruption.

In A NEW ECONOMIC POLICY FOR INDIA : Jayaprakash Narayan's disenchantment with planning is cited alongside other prominent figures to demonstrate that dissatisfaction with the Soviet-style model has become cross-ideological.

In The Indian Libertarian : Narayan is the subject of M.

By Jayaprakash Narayan (1)

Excerpts (1)

Mentioned in (24)

Primary works (14)

  • Economic Prophecies · 2004
    • "Shenoy closes by arguing that even a Gandhian government — with J P Narayan or Vinoba Bhave as prime minister — could not correct the chaos without a thorough restructuring of policies including heavy cuts in public-sector outlays." — JP invoked as a moral-authority limit case — even his leadership would be inadequate without policy restructuring
    • "The essay documents how the Swatantra Party, Jayaprakash Narayan, and M R Masani — ostensibly friends of free enterprise — nevertheless hedged their support for the business community." — JP is criticised for hedged defence of entrepreneurial freedom
  • Fifty Years After ... · 1997
    • "citing Gandhi, J.P. Narayan, and M. N. Roy as models." — Narayan cited as one of three rational-poverty-leadership exemplars D'Souza invokes
  • Role of Intellectuals in Public Life · 1980
  • LESSONS OF WHEAT TRADE NATIONALISATION · 1974
  • Inflation & Economic Growth · 1973
    • "Through the discussion he keeps returning to Jayaprakash Narayan's appeal for moral renewal and contrasts Indian sloppiness with the post-revolutionary discipline he observes in China." — establishes JP's moral-renewal call as the recurring counterpoint to the lecture's institutional critique
  • STATE TAKEOVER OF FOODGRAINS TRADE · 1973
  • A NEW ECONOMIC POLICY FOR INDIA · 1967
    • "Vaidya opens by registering the disenchantment with planning that has reached even Indira Gandhi, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, G. L. Nanda, Jayaprakash Narayan and Planning Commission Deputy Chairman D. R. Gadgil" — JP's inclusion signals that even socialist leaders are questioning centralised planning, strengthening Vaidya's case for a new economic policy
  • The Indian Libertarian · 1963
    • "M. N. Tholal's essay examines Jayaprakash Narayan's political philosophy, focusing on the tension between Narayan's Gandhian commitment to non-violence and his stated support for Indian resistance to the 1962 Chinese aggression." — opens the essay summary and establishes Narayan as the analytic target
    • "Narayan's belief that moral suasion could influence Chinese Communist leaders is treated as dangerously naive." — summarises Tholal's verdict on the foreign-policy application of Narayan's philosophy
  • Free Enterprise in India — A Call For Leadership · 1961
    • "Cites Jayaprakash Narayan's reported disillusionment with the nationalisation of big industries as evidence that even socialist founders are abandoning doctrinaire positions." — used by Shroff as a concessive argument that the intellectual wind is shifting away from doctrinaire socialism
  • Free Enterprise in India - A Call For Leadership · 1961
    • "Shroff opens with the observation that even committed socialists like Jayaprakash Narayan are now disillusioned with nationalisation" — opening concessive argument: if even socialists doubt nationalisation, the case against the Third Plan is doubly strong
  • ENLIST CO-OPERATION OF PRIVATE ENTERPRISE · 1959
    • "Jayaprakash Narayan's qualified blessing and Nehru's recognition that constructive criticism would serve Congress" — Narayan cited as cross-ideological endorser of the new opposition party
  • For Freedom, Farm And Family · 1959
    • "with whom Jayaprakash Narayan and Prof. N. G. Ranga share the diagnosis" — Narayan cited as a cross-spectrum ally who shares the anti-collectivist diagnosis that motivates the new party initiative
  • The Indian Libertarian · 1957
    • "whether Jayaprakash Narayan's acknowledged political stature is being wasted outside formal politics" — Vivek's question — JP's withdrawal from electoral politics framed as a loss to liberal democratic opposition
    • "Jayaprakash Narayan's political talent is cited as a wasted resource outside the formal party system." — key-points restatement of the JP question
  • ECONOMICS OF FREEDOM · n.d.
    • "Jayaprakash Narayan's warning that the Welfare State 'threatens as much to enslave man to the State as the totalitarian'" — Narayan's warning cited as Indian socialist evidence that even the left recognised statism's dangers

Opinion pieces (1)

  • Minoo Masani : From Socialism to Liberal Swatantra Party
    • "As a young admirer of the USSR experiment and an advocate of democratic socialism, Minoo worked with Jayaprakash Narayan and Nehru to turn Congress towards the left in the 1930s." — identifies JP as Masani's early socialist collaborator
    • "A group of socialists including JP, Achut Patwardhan, and Ashok Mehta were among the political prisoners in the Nashik jail. Minoo Masani's discussions with JP paved the way for an anti-imperial socialist outfit within the Congress party." — credits their jail conversations with catalysing the CSP

Excerpts (9)

  • A Resilient Soul: Ramadevi Chowdhuri
    • "Her childhood was influenced by freedom fighters and thinkers like Mahatma Gandhi, Vinoba Bhave, Sri Aurobindo, and JP Narayan." — JP Narayan is named as one of the thinkers who inspired Chowdhuri's activism
  • Free Enterprise in Danger - B.R. Shenoy
    • "even a hypothetical government of Gandhian ascetics - with J.P. Narayan or Vinoba Bhave as prime minister - could make no significant difference to these developments under the prevailing 'schizophrenic policies'" — Shenoy's argument that the problem is structural, not a matter of leadership character
  • Free Enterprise in India: A Call for Leadership - A.D. Shroff, 1961
    • "Mr Jayaprakash Narayan, a founder of socialist movement in India, is thoroughly disillusioned about nationalisation, one of the main planks of doctrinaire socialism." — Narayan's conversion from nationalisation is Shroff's rhetorical proof that economic common sense is winning over honest socialists
  • Sikkim – Through Other Eyes
    • "The camp boasted the likes of Jayprakash Narayan, C Rajagopalachari, and Minoo Masani." — JP named as one of three dissidents against Indian imperial overreach
    • "Masani questioned the double standards of his compatriots on the 'Indian imperialism', dubbed JP the 'real anti-imperialist'" — Masani specifically singles out JP as the authentic anti-imperialist voice in Indian politics
  • THE DANGERS OF JOINT CO-OPERATIVE FARMING
    • "In Koraput, Acharya Vinobha Bhave and Mr. Jaya Prakash Narayan tried to ask the local people to cultivate them as a village and not to ask for distribution of the land. Mr. Jaya Prakash confessed that this experiment had not succeeded" — JP's admission of failure in the cooperative experiment cited as evidence
    • "Shri Jaya Prakash Narayan has said in Banaras that co-operative farming in today's context means creating "puppets in the hands of officials."" — JP quoted directly as an opponent of cooperative farming
  • The Essence of Democracy
    • "Such were the disconcerting sentiments expressed by Shri Jayaprakash Narayan, the PSP leader, in the course of his whirlwind tour of Gujarat in support of Vinoba's Bhoodan Movement." — JP named as the source of the argument that prompts the editorial response
    • "Perhaps it is a mistake to always imagine that in a democracy there should be a ruling party and an opposition party." — JP's own words quoted verbatim at the opening of the editorial
  • The Universality of Human Values - M.R. Masani
    • "Only last month Jayaprakash Narayan wrote: "For many years I have worshipped at the shrine of the goddess Dialectical Materialism" — Masani cites JP's rejection of materialism as corroboration for the universality of non-material values
  • The Universality Of Human Values
    • "Only last month Jayaprakash Narayan wrote, "For many years I have worshipped at the shrine of the goddess Dialectical Materialism" — JP's conversion from materialism cited as evidence that non-material values transcend ideology
  • Towards Party-less Democracy
    • "Mr. Jayaprakash Narayan is mobilising public opinion by means of seminars and the circulation of concrete proposals among uncommitted thinkers" — introduction of JP as the active champion bringing the idea into public discourse
    • "Mr. Narayan's suggestion is that of jettisoning the party altogether" — JP's core proposal stated directly