INDIAN IDEOLOGY
Anderson, Perry.
INDIAN IDEOLOGY :with replies to questions and criticisms - 1 - New Delhi Three Essays Collective 2017/11/01 - 236
The Indian Ideology suggests that the roots of the republic’s current ills go very deep, historically. They lie, it argues, 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 was has gone wrong since independence.
Revisiting a century’s history, and sifting the uncomfortable realities from the ideology, Anderson offers an alternative way to look at the story of the nation, and the nature of a state that is less in conflict with caste than built upon it.
CONTENTS
Foreword
Independence
Partition
Republic
Extra:
Note to the Second Edition
Interview with Praful Bidwai
The Indian Ideology and Its Critics
9789383968091
Purchased IPD Alternatives 44 Ground Floor Shahpur Jat, Newdelhi (Kriti International Book Fest 2020
India- History.
Partition of India (1947).
Politics and government.
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948.
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964.
Political culture.
Autonomy and independence movements.
British Occupation of India (1765-1947).
954.03 / AND/IN
INDIAN IDEOLOGY :with replies to questions and criticisms - 1 - New Delhi Three Essays Collective 2017/11/01 - 236
The Indian Ideology suggests that the roots of the republic’s current ills go very deep, historically. They lie, it argues, 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 was has gone wrong since independence.
Revisiting a century’s history, and sifting the uncomfortable realities from the ideology, Anderson offers an alternative way to look at the story of the nation, and the nature of a state that is less in conflict with caste than built upon it.
CONTENTS
Foreword
Independence
Partition
Republic
Extra:
Note to the Second Edition
Interview with Praful Bidwai
The Indian Ideology and Its Critics
9789383968091
Purchased IPD Alternatives 44 Ground Floor Shahpur Jat, Newdelhi (Kriti International Book Fest 2020
India- History.
Partition of India (1947).
Politics and government.
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948.
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964.
Political culture.
Autonomy and independence movements.
British Occupation of India (1765-1947).
954.03 / AND/IN