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Bombay "city boss," Congress party treasurer, and union cabinet minister from Nehru to Indira: Sadashiv Kanoji Patil (1898–1981).
| Title: | Bombay "city boss," Congress party treasurer, and union cabinet minister from Nehru to Indira: Sadashiv Kanoji Patil (1898–1981). |
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| Authors: | Ankit, Rakesh1 (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | India Review. May/Jun2023, Vol. 22 Issue 3, p333-359. 27p. |
| Abstract: | S.K. Patil, quintessential Congressman of Bombay city and cabinet minister in three central governments from 1957 to 1963 and 1964 to 1967, was the kind of figure in Indian politics, who personified Rajni Kothari's Congress "system" of clients-patrons and chains-links. A Patelite, Patil was a thorn in Nehru's side. A leader of the business community, he identified with a network politics involving capital. He was an indifferent administrator, but an influential party apparatchik and his career peaked in 1964–1967, when he was a part of the all-important Congress "syndicate." Afterward, however, he struggled for relevance in the turbulent decade of the 1970s. In this research article based on Patil's personal papers, I offer these fragments from his political life as interesting prisms through which to view (a) aspects of intra-party and inter-ministerial conflictual culture, (b) issues concerning the top-down character of governance with implications for public policy and (c) the complex opposition to it, both inside and outside, thereby repaying this visit to an individual's trajectory in contemporary history with parallels for current politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Subject Terms: | *Cabinet officers, *Federal government, *Government policy, Civic leaders, Spanish-American War, 1898 |
| Geographic Terms: | Mumbai (India) |
| People: | Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964 |
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| ISSN: | 14736489 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14736489.2023.2201541 |
| Database: | Business Source Complete |
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