Independent Indian: Work & Life of Professor Subroto Roy

  • Life of MK Roy 1915:2012, Indian Aristocrat & Diplomat, Birth Centenary Concludes 7 Nov 2016
  • Thoughts, words, deeds: My work 1973-2021
  • Bibliography, Books, Public Lectures, Memoranda, Memoirs

    • Life of MK Roy 1915:2012, Indian Aristocrat & Diplomat, Birth Centenary Concludes 7 Nov 2016
      • Buju’s Life & Paintings 14 Feb 1943:10 Jan 1998 (Draft 14.2.2018)
      • India-Pakistan Diplomacy During the 1965 War: the MK Roy Files
      • Solving a Problem of State Tyranny: Director General Siddhanta Das: Have Forest Service Officers been threatening ordinary citizens, seizing their property, then threatening them with arrest if they complain? If so, how many cases of wrongful seizure and wrongful imprisonment have WCCB caused among India’s villagers and forest dwellers since 1994? There is immediate need for an Ombudsman to independently review all cases in each of your Five Zones!
    • Thoughts, words, deeds: My work 1973-2021
      • My American years: Part One 1980-90: battles for academic integrity & freedom
        • Become a US Supreme Court Justice! (Explorations in the Rule of Law in America)
        • Fixing Washington: On Improving Institutional Design in the United States
        • What happened in the American Presidential Election of 2020? Some obvious observations… (An ongoing note)
      • NOW IN PDF 22 MAY 2022!!! Philosophy of Economics: On the Scope of Reason in Economic Inquiry (1989)
        • Apropos *Philosophy of Economics*
        • On the plagiarism by Amartya Sen of my work (and that of others especially T. W. Schultz)
        • Science, Religion, Art & the Necessity of Freedom (2004)
        • The 1982 Subroto Roy Critique of the KJ Arrow Amartya Sen “social choice” theory, plus the FA Hayek and IJ Good comments, plus the 1989 chapter from *Philosophy of Economics* “Remarks on the Foundations of Welfare Economics”
        • A General Theory of Globalization & Modern Terrorism (2001)
        • The Work of Reason: An Architecture of Human Knowledge
        • Physics & Reasoning (An Ongoing Tract) by Subroto Roy DRAFT 01.12.2017
        • Is “Cambridge Philosophy” dead, in Cambridge? Can it be resurrected, there? Case Study: Renford Bambrough (& Subroto Roy) preceded by decades Cheryl Misak’s thesis on Wittgenstein being linked with Peirce via Ramsey…
        • Economics as a Beautiful Subject: Its Concepts & Principles Explained for Everyone (DRAFT)…. by Subroto Roy
      • Pricing, Planning & Politics: A Study of Economic Distortions in India 1984, uploaded as pdf 2021
        • Now in pdf 37 years later! my 1984 *Pricing, Planning & Politics: A Study of Economic Distortions in India*
        • “I’m on my way out”: Siddhartha Shankar Ray (1920-2010)…An Economist’s Tribute
        • Rajiv Gandhi and the Origins of India’s 1991 Economic Reform
        • Three Memoranda to Rajiv Gandhi 1990-91
        • Did Jagdish Bhagwati “originate”, “pioneer”, “intellectually father” India’s 1991 economic reform? Did Manmohan Singh? Or did I, through my encounter with Rajiv Gandhi, just as Siddhartha Shankar Ray told Manmohan & his aides in Sep 1993 in Washington? Judge the evidence for yourself. And why has Amartya Sen misdescribed his work? India’s right path forward today remains what I said in my 3 Dec 2012 Delhi lecture!
          • My 120+ Newspaper “Op-Eds” 2005-2015 on World Politics, Monetary Economics, Diplomacy, Governance, India, China, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, America, etc
        • “Haksar, Manmohan and Sonia” (2014)
        • My (armchair) experience of the 1999 Kargil war (Or, “Actionable Intelligence” in the Internet age: How the Kargil effort got a little help from a desktop)
        • Sonia’s Lying Courtier with Postscript 25 Nov 2007, & Addendum 30 June 2014
        • Much as I might love Russia, England, France, America, I despise their spies & local agents affecting poor India’s policies: Memo to PM Modi, Mr Jaitley, Mr Doval & the new Govt. of India: Beware of Delhi’s sleeper agents, lobbyists & other dalals
        • Modi & Monetary Theory: Economic Consequences of the Prime Minister of India (2016)
        • 1 May 2020 Statement of Dr. Subroto Roy, Economist & Citizen, Proposing PM Narendra Modi & Home Minister Amit Shah Apologize to India’s People, Create Remedy, and Resign to Do Prayaschit/Atonement; 9 May: A New Cabinet for President Kovind
      • Introduction and Some Biography
  • Some Recent Work

    • Ukraine History: a Soviet version and a British version March 8, 2022
    • First Notes on Probability December 14, 2021
    • On the Simplest Smallest Most Universal Direct #FlatTax of 500 Rupees per annum for India — accruing to the States, with a BPL exemption too December 1, 2021
    • Foundations of Pakistan’s Political Economy: Towards an Agenda for the 1990s, edited by William E James & Subroto Roy, 1986-1993… pdf copy uploaded 2021 November 12, 2021
    • Foundations of India’s Political Economy: Towards an Agenda for the 1990s edited by Subroto Roy & William E James, 1986-1992… pdf copy uploaded 2021 November 12, 2021
    • Critique of Amartya Sen: A Tragedy of Plagiarism, Fake News, Dissimulation July 26, 2021
    • Glimpses of Indian Politics (& World Events) Seen Via Some Statesman Editorials 2005-2008 July 12, 2021
    • What happened in the American Presidential Election of 2020? Some obvious observations… (An ongoing note) December 13, 2020
    • 1 May 2020 Statement of Dr. Subroto Roy, Economist & Citizen, Proposing PM Narendra Modi & Home Minister Amit Shah Apologize to India’s People, Create Remedy, and Resign to Do Prayaschit/Atonement; 9 May: A New Cabinet for President Kovind May 1, 2020
    • Critique of Monetary Ideas of Manmohan & Modi: the Roy Model explaining to Bimal Jalan, Nirmala Sitharaman, RBI etc what it is they are doing (2019) August 4, 2019
    • Solving a Problem of State Tyranny: Director General Siddhanta Das: Have Forest Service Officers been threatening ordinary citizens, seizing their property, then threatening them with arrest if they complain?  If so, how many cases of wrongful seizure and wrongful imprisonment have WCCB caused among India’s villagers and forest dwellers since 1994? There is immediate need for an Ombudsman to independently review all cases in each of your Five Zones!   May 4, 2019
    • S N Roy hears from Lytton: A 1922 case of British imperial racism in Indian governance (with lessons for today) [Draft text 12 August 2018] February 8, 2018
    • Is “Cambridge Philosophy” dead, in Cambridge? Can it be resurrected, there? Case Study: Renford Bambrough (& Subroto Roy) preceded by decades Cheryl Misak’s thesis on Wittgenstein being linked with Peirce via Ramsey… October 27, 2017
    • Physics & Reasoning (An Ongoing Tract) by Subroto Roy DRAFT 01.12.2017 September 26, 2017
    • Modi & Monetary Theory: Economic Consequences of the Prime Minister of India (2016) December 9, 2016
    • Fixing Washington: On Improving Institutional Design in the United States November 24, 2016
    • On being reunited with Arrow Hahn after a dozen years July 3, 2015
    • How the India-Bangladesh Enclaves Problem Was Jump-Started in 2007 Towards its 2015 Solution: A Case Study of Academic Impact on Policy June 8, 2015
    • Pakistan’s & India’s Illusions of Power (Psychosis vs Vanity) March 3, 2015
    • Delhi can never be improved — until the rest of India improves! February 13, 2015
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Will the Telangana flare-up awaken New Delhi from its dream-world and into India’s political reality?

December 13, 2009 — drsubrotoroy

Subroto Roy thinks the flare-up of the Telangana issue has one and only one positive consequence: it brings home to New Delhi’s ruling elite that there are real political questions in India, and not everything can be left to spin-doctors and lobbyists to handle.

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