The Indian Liberals Project (www.indianliberals.in) is an initiative by the Centre for Civil Society, New Delhi, supported by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, South Asia. Launched in 2015, indianliberals.in remains India’s sole online digital repository offering an exhaustive and comprehensive archive of resources on the liberal thought traditions in India. The digital archive continues to take India’s liberal histories to a growing audience of scholars, researchers, and keen readers. Along with digitised original and rare collections from India’s more and lesser known liberal giants, the archive also holds audio-visual content. We continue to strive to curate and digitise content in multiple languages, with the archive already holding translated texts from Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati and Bengali. The Indian Liberals archive holds nearly 1 lakh digitised pages as of today.
Gurcharan Das is an author and former CEO of Procter & Gamble India. He studied philosophy at Harvard University and later attended Harvard Business School (AMP) where he is featured in three case studies. After heading Procter & Gamble India and South East Asia, he became Managing Director, Procter & Gamble Worldwide (Strategic Planning). At 50, he took early retirement to become a full-time writer.
The Indian Liberals Annual Lecture series was started in November 2021 to highlight the ideals of classical liberalism through contemporary voices in India. Delivered by eminent liberal personalities - philosophers, historians, thinkers, or economists, the objective of the Indian Liberals Lecture is to educate and disseminate liberal understandings of India’s past as well as its implications on the advancement of liberalism today. The objective is to highlight the importance of liberal values such as freedom of expression, free enterprise, rule of law, constitutionalism, participatory democracy, religious freedom, and all other human liberties. The Lecture is part of our efforts to increase interest in the necessity of liberal thought in maintaining India’s vibrant democratic ethos.
The first Indian Liberals annual lecture was delivered by Ms. Sagarika Ghose on The Case for Individual Liberty: • 1st Indian Liberals An...
The second Indian Liberals annual lecture was delivered by Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan, ex-IAS on The Scope for Political Liberalism in India: • 2nd Indian Liberals An...