The New India is the unforgettable account of the struggle between
modern forces and ancient ideas to shape the young country's destiny.
It reveals a picture of a nation on the precipice of dramatic change.
'Remarkable... fascinating... brilliant' Guardian
Based on six years of detailed research and on-the-ground reporting,
the book builds - authoritatively, vividly, indelibly - to become the
story of post-colonial India. Using hundreds of interviews, and
letters, diary entries, Partition-era police reports, and an
astonishing range of sources, Bhatia shows how history plays a
recurring role in the present: in politics, in the minds of citizens,
in notions of justice and corruption.
Bhatia examines the connections between the Delhi riots of 2020 and the
emergence of nineteenth-century revolutionary secret societies, the
rise of Hindu nationalism, whose early advocates drew lessons from
Hitler and Mussolini, the political use of misinformation and religious
targeting, and the Hindu fundamentalist ideology that sparked the
creation of the world's largest biometric project. As Bhatia shows, the
evolution of this citizen database, in the hands of the BJP, now
threatens to deny vast numbers of India's 200 million Muslims their
Indian citizenship. Electorates in democracies used to choose their
government. Now, in India, the government is choosing its electorate.
India has rarely been seen as in The New India, a monumental work of
narrative reportage that illuminates the ways in which a supremacist
ideology remade the country over decades, resulting in the prodigious
rise of Narendra Modi, and forcing many to ask what they truly
understood about their neighbours and themselves.
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