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A question of order : India, Turkey, and the return of strongmen

Title

A question of order : India, Turkey, and the return of strongmen / Basharat Peer.

Author

Peer, Basharat, 1977-

Publication

New York : Columbia Global Reports, [2017]
©2017

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Description

170 pages : maps; 19 cm

Summary

"What happens when a democratically elected leader evolves into an authoritarian ruler, limiting press freedom, civil liberties, and religious and ethnic tolerance? India and Turkey are two of the world's biggest democracies--multi-ethnic nations that rose from their imperial past to be founded on the values of modernity. They have fair elections, open markets, and freedom of religion. Yet this is an account of how the charismatic strongmen Narendra Modi, in India, and Recep Tyyip Erdoğan, in Turkey, used the power they had won as elected heads of state to push their countries toward authoritarian ways. Journalist Basharat Peer knows only too well how the tyranny of the majority can exact a terrible human toll; it's a story he told in Curfewed Night, his memoir of growing up in war-torn Kashmir. For this book, Peer spent a year and a half traveling across India and Turkey to chronicle the rise of Modi and Erdoğan, and to tell the stories of the men and women they have victimized, who have showed courage and endured great suffering because of their love of true democratic traditions. It is more important than ever to understand the failings of democracies like India and Turkey if liberal traditions are to be protected and nourished"--Back cover.

Alternative Title

India, Turkey, and the return of strongmen

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Prologue -- The spell -- Freedom for the wolf -- The country without a post office -- The brief and wondrous life of Rohith Vemula -- Crescent on the Bosphorus -- The feat of the generals -- A strongman grows in Ankara -- A shattered peace -- Journey to the sun -- Conclusion.

Call Number

JFC 18-454

ISBN

9780997126426
0997126426

LCCN

2016945883

OCLC

935988157

Author

Peer, Basharat, 1977- author.

Title

A question of order : India, Turkey, and the return of strongmen / Basharat Peer.

Publisher

New York : Columbia Global Reports, [2017]

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

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Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Research Call Number

JFC 18-454

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