constitutional liberal
M. L. Dantwala
Mohanlal Lallubhai Dantwala
1909–1998
Also known as: M.L. Dantewala, Dantwala, Dantewala, दांतेवाला
How M. L. Dantwala is discussed in this archive
Referenced in 3 other works — including अन्वयार्थ - १ , Education and India's Poverty , and Efficient Planning in a Democratic Society .
In अन्वयार्थ - १ : Dantewala is paired with Ashok Mitra in Joshi's fourth essay as a representative of the planning-era economists whose price-control advocacy Joshi treats as ideological cover for an extractive bureaucratic class that injures the farmer.
In Education and India's Poverty : Dantwala (Dantewala) is cited alongside Dandekar and Rath and Fonseca as having produced rigorous studies of poverty that John salutes for moving the debate beyond sentimental generalities.
In Efficient Planning in a Democratic Society : Dantwala is cited as representing the more equivocal acceptance of planning among sympathetic economists, used by Mehta to delineate the space between full capitulation and Shenoy's principled dissent.
Mentioned in (3)
Primary works (3)
- अन्वयार्थ - १ · 2010
- "notably Ashok Mitra and Dantewala, who champion planning-era controls while benefiting from them, and exposes how price controls damage farmers" — Summary of essay 4; identifies Dantewala alongside Mitra as the named planner-economists Joshi attacks
- "Ashok Mitra and M. L. Dantewala are named as economists who provide ideological cover for planning-era price controls while personally benefiting from the system." — Key-point bullet; restates Dantewala's role in Joshi's account of the planning-era rentier class
- Education and India's Poverty · 1975
- "John, a former Vice-Chancellor of Jodhpur University, opens by saluting the scholarly studies of poverty by Dandekar and Rath, Fonseca, and Dantwala for moving the debate beyond sentimental generalities" — Dantwala acknowledged as a serious poverty scholar whose empirical work John builds on
- Efficient Planning in a Democratic Society · 1965
- "including Prof. M. L. Dantwala's more equivocal acceptance." — Dantwala placed as a middle position between the planning consensus and Shenoy's dissent