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The people behind the Great Men of 1991
It is customary to question the “Great Man” historical narratives by invoking Tolstoy.
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So, pardon the cliché. Tolstoy notes in the second epilogue to War and Peace that general historians look “for the cause of events not in the power of one man, but in the interaction of many persons connected with the event”. This is a useful way to look the history of India’s 1991 reforms, especially as an antidote to the numerous—at times nauseating—Great Man accounts we have been flooded with.
When Manmohan Singh was selected as prime minister by Sonia Gandhi and the Congress party, reams where written about how he had emerged as the “middle-class hero” by liberalizing the Indian economy.
With the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance’s fall from grace, that narrative was pushed back.
Now, another crowd has discovered P.V. Narasimha Rao as the shrewd Chanakya, the man who set the political plumbing right to push through the reforms, but was den