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S. Chandrasekhar

Sripati Chandrasekhar

1918–2001

Also known as: Sripati Chandrasekhar

How S. Chandrasekhar is discussed in this archive

Referenced in 1 other work — including Congress Misrule and the Swatantra Alternative .

In Congress Misrule and the Swatantra Alternative : Chandrasekhar's demographic field reports on Chinese communes are deployed alongside Djilas as empirical evidence for the New Class thesis, lending Masani's anti-collectivisation case the authority of an Indian observer.

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  • Congress Misrule and the Swatantra Alternative · 1966
    • "He invokes Milovan Djilas's 'The New Class' and the testimony of demographer S. Chandrasekhar on Chinese communes to show that state capitalism produces a new exploiting bureaucratic class rather than social justice." — Chandrasekhar's reportage on Chinese communes is cited as evidence against the Nagpur Resolution's collectivist trajectory
    • "Masani deploys Milovan Djilas's 'The New Class' and S. Chandrasekhar's account of Chinese communes to argue that state capitalism produces a more exploitative bureaucratic class than private capitalism in the rendered pages." — summary key-point restating Chandrasekhar's evidentiary role