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Morarji Desai

1896–1995

How Morarji Desai is discussed in this archive

Referenced in 11 other works — including An Inflationary Budget , The Missed Opportunity , and Industrial Relations .

In Industrial Relations : Cited as Prime Minister and addressee of Charan Singh's June 1979 note opposing bonus for railwaymen — positioning Desai's cabinet as the political setting for the Janata-era labour-law and bonus disputes the pamphlet covers.

In Rural Development is Key to Welfare of the Masses : Doshi cites Morarji Desai's Janata government as evidence of the pragmatic, anti-control turn he endorses as a corrective to two decades of mismanagement.

In Discrimination Between the Two Sectors : Master cites Finance Minister Morarji Desai's own admissions in Parliament that public-sector units must earn adequate returns, using the government's own statements to expose the hypocrisy of denying the private sector equal treatment.

In A REVIEW OF THE FINANCE (No. 2) BILL, 1962 : Morarji Desai's abolition of the Expenditure Tax is praised as an act of 'great courage and independent thinking', held up as the positive counterexample to the Finance Bill's unjust capital-gains provisions.

In An Open Letter to L.I.C. : Peregrine traces the LIC's target-chasing culture back to Morarji Desai's 1959 Lok Sabha exhortation to reach Rs.

Mentioned in (15)

Primary works (12)

  • Regional Cooperation in South Asia · 1981
  • Industrial Relations · 1979
    • "a note from the then Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Mr. Charan Singh, addressed to Prime Minister Morarji Desai, opposing the grant of bonus to railwaymen" — frames the bonus controversy at the apex of the Janata cabinet
  • Rural Development is Key to Welfare of the Masses · 1977
    • "Doshi welcomes the new "rolling plan" and the Janata government's pragmatic, anti-control turn (citing Morarji Desai)" — constructive section; Morarji Desai is invoked as the political embodiment of the policy turn Doshi supports
  • RETHINKING ON PUBLIC SECTOR · 1970
  • Discrimination Between the Two Sectors · 1966
    • "Master cites Finance Ministers Morarji R. Desai (1962-63) and T. T. Krishnamachari (1964-65) to show that even the Government now concedes that public-sector units must earn 'adequate' profits" — Morarji Desai's concessions in Parliament are turned against the government's discriminatory treatment of the private sector
  • PROFITS IN A PLANNED ECONOMY · 1965
  • A REVIEW OF THE FINANCE (No. 2) BILL, 1962 · 1962
    • "He praises Morarji Desai's "great courage and independent thinking" in abolishing the Expenditure Tax" — Desai's decisive policy reversal is cited as evidence that the Finance Minister can and should exercise independent judgment to correct unjust taxation
  • An Open Letter to L.I.C. · 1962
    • "Peregrine traces the LIC's promotional culture back to Morarji Desai's 1959 Lok Sabha exhortation to reach Rs. 1,000 crores of new business as soon as possible" — incentive-analysis section; Desai's parliamentary target is identified as the originating political pressure behind the Corporation's mis-selling culture
  • NEW COMPANY TAX SCHEME HITS SHAREHOLDERS · 1960
    • "a goal he hopes Finance Minister Morarji Desai will continue to pursue." — closing address to Desai as the finance minister tasked with carrying the reform forward
  • An Inflationary Budget · 1959
    • "A. D. Shroff's address dissects the Union Budget for 1959-60 presented by Finance Minister Morarji Desai" — opening identification of the budget's author; Desai is Shroff's primary interlocutor throughout the pamphlet
    • "He concedes one welcome reform: Morarji R. Desai's formal abolition of the compulsory deposit scheme that the Forum had earlier denounced." — sole concession in the address; Desai is credited for one reform the Forum had long demanded
  • State Trading · 1958
  • Cotton Policy · 1956
    • "Morarji Desai, would bring fairness and rule of law to the trade" — closing note expressing qualified optimism that Desai's appointment as Commerce Minister would reverse the arbitrary government interventions described throughout the pamphlet

Excerpts (3)

  • National Priorities for 1970
    • "I am very glad, therefore, that a strong opponent of coalitions like Mr Morarji Desai has now veered around to the view that coalitions are now inevitable." — Desai's reversal supplies the political evidence for Masani's coalitions-thesis
  • Sikkim – Through Other Eyes
    • "I was glad when Mr. Morarji Desai, Prime Minister of India some years later, admitted that he could not justify the taking over of Sikkim." — Desai's admission used to validate Masani's earlier objection to the annexation
  • The Missed Opportunity
    • "Even Sri Morarji Desai did not wish to join the Cabinet till he was offered the incentive of a Deputy Prime Ministership." — Desai cited to illustrate the universal human need for incentives, applying the principle even to senior politicians
    • "Mr Morarji Desai says that he would like to rehabilitate his confidence, but he has not taken any steps for it." — Desai criticised for rhetorical acknowledgement of the inflation problem without substantive policy action