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The Indian Ideology (Paperback)
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The Indian Ideology (Paperback)
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The historiography of modern India is largely a pageant of presumed
virtues: harmonious territorial unity, religious impartiality, the
miraculous survival of electoral norms in the world's most populous
democracy. Even critics of injustices within Indian society still
underwrite such claims. But how well does the 'Idea of India'
correspond to the realities of the Union? In an iconoclastic
intervention, Marxist historian Perry Anderson provides an
unforgettable reading of the Subcontinent's passage through
Independence and the catastrophe of Partition, the idiosyncratic
and corrosive vanities of Gandhi and Nehru, and the close
interrelationship of Indian democracy and caste inequality. The
Indian Ideology caused uproar on first publication in 2012, not
least for breaking with euphemisms for Delhi's occupation of
Kashmir. This new, expanded edition includes the author's reply to
his critics, an interview with the late Praful Bidwai of the Indian
weekly Outlook, and a postscript on India under the rule of
Narendra Modi. Anderson considers whether his regime is as much of
a break with the practices and thought processes of Congress rule
as is generally supposed.
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