# B. R. Shenoy **URL:** --- Dr. Bellikoth Ragunath Shenoy (1905–1978) was a prominent Indian economist and advocate for human freedom who offered an important, if sometimes lonely, defense of the free market in Indian politics. A biographical essay about Shenoy, "[B. R. Shenoy: Stature and Impact](http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/1998/5/cj18n1-1.pdf)," appeared in the [_Cato Journal_, Vol. 18 No. 1 (Spring/Summer 1998)](http://www.cato.org/cato-journal/springsummer-1998).