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Harold J. Laski (1893-1950) was an English political scientist and Labour Party leader. Active as a teacher and political theorist, he was also one of the leading writers on democratic socialism. Laski had a massive impact on the politics and the formation of India, having taught a generation of future Indian leaders at the London School of Economics. It is almost entirely due to him that the London School of Economics has a semi-mythological status in India. He was steady in his unremitting advocacy of the independence of India. He was a revered figure to Indian students at the London School of Economics. One Indian Prime Minister said, “At every meeting of the Indian National Congress, there is a vacant chair for the ghost of Harold Laski”.