The Indian ideology
By: Perry Anderson
Edition: Paperback edition
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781781682593
Subjects: History; Autonomy and independence movements; Politics and government; Political culture; HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Description: "Today, the Indian state claims to embody the values of a stable political democracy, a harmonious territorial unity, and a steadfast religious impartiality. Even many of those critical of the inequalities of Indian society underwrite such claims. The Indian Ideology suggests that the roots of the current ills of the Republic go much deeper, historically. They lie, in the way the struggle for independence culminated in the transfer of power from British rule to Congress in a divided subcontinent, not least in the roles played by Gandhi as the great architect of the movement, and Nehru as his appointed successor, in the catastrophe of Partition. Only an honest reckoning with that disaster, Perry Anderson argues, offers an understanding of what has gone wrong with the Republic since Independence"--
Notes: Originally published: Gurgaon, India : Three Essays Collective, 2012.

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