01191 a2200145 4500 260417b ii ||||| |||| 00| 0 mal d 9789363362178 Patnaik, Prabhat Socialism New Delhi: Speaking Tiger, 2025. 140p. What does ‘socialist’ in the Indian Constitution really mean, and how far has policy moved the country towards—or away from—that promise? In this crisp volume, economist Prabhat Patnaik revisits the anti-colonial imagination of a democratic, secular, egalitarian order; examines the post-Independence dirigiste settlement (planning, public sector, bank nationalization); tracks the neoliberal turn and its consequences for employment, welfare, and popular sovereignty; and maps the political economy of our present. Arguing that equality of opportunity is impossible under persistent unemployment, inherited wealth, and privatized social goods, Patnaik sketches concrete prerequisites—universal high-quality public education and healthcare, curbs on inheritance, and a state oriented to social ownership—to move ‘towards socialism’. BK ddc 49549 49549 0 0 ddc 0 0 MAIN MAIN RN05 2026-04-03 48 329.00 0 320.531 PAT 38516 2026-04-03 00:00:00 399.00 2026-04-03 BK Recommended by AKHIL C (DPM/19/09/H)