Last week General Motors joined the line of revisionists with an announcement that it will cap health-care spending by its retired workers.

ECONOMIST: Older workers

Unlike many revisionists, he embraces the post-war order, wants an internationalist role for Japan, and does not see bogeymen behind every tree.

ECONOMIST: Japan and its history

Also, at the opposite end of the spectrum, there are Muslim doubters, revisionists and reformers, who have had to mute their voices for fear of being branded apostates.

ECONOMIST: Egypt and global Islam

But revisionists think there is more to it than that.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus

There is, then, no need for the revisionists to rewrite the story of India's liberalisation and resurgence, Mr Panagariya says: the hesitant reforms of the 1980s were a prelude to the bolder reforms of 1991.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus