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The Indian ideology / Perry Anderson.

Title
The Indian ideology / Perry Anderson.
Author
Anderson, Perry
Publication
London ; New York : Verso, 2013.

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191 pages; 21 cm
Summary
"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"--
Subject
  • Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948
  • Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964
  • Political culture > India
  • HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
  • India > Autonomy and independence movements
  • India > History > Partition, 1947
  • India > Politics and government > 1947-
Note
  • Originally published: Gurgaon, India : Three Essays Collective, 2012.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Independence -- Partition -- Republic.
ISBN
  • 9781781682593 (pbk.)
  • 1781682593 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2013019312
OCLC
841899621
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library