From Smith to Modi: tracing socio-economic ideas across history

By Gunjan Das (ARSD) The notions of left-right-centre, or if not satisfied, then centre-left, centre-right, far-left and far-right are ever-contested and never clearly distinguishable. Initially, the political spectrum was simply a byproduct to position the contested and diverse political ideologies. There once emerged horseshoe and linear spectrums, the two opposite ends of them being left…