MALEVOLENT REPUBLIC : Short History of New India
Language: English Publication details: Chennai Context 2019/01/01Edition: 1Description: 228ISBN:- 9789387894969
- 324.20954 KOM/MA
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324.2092 VIV/CM CM TO PM NARENDRA MODI | 324.20954 ELS/BH BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY VIS-A-VIS HINDU RESURGENCE | 324.20954 GHO/BJ BJP AND THE EVOLUTION OF HINDU NATIONALISM : | 324.20954 KOM/MA MALEVOLENT REPUBLIC : Short History of New India | 324.20954 LEF LEFT POLITICS IN SOUTH ASIA : Reframing the Agenda | 324.20954 MAK MAKING OF NEW INDIA : Transformation Under Modi Government | 324.20954 MAN MAAN KI BAAT : New Concept of Rashtra- Dharma |
India is an improbable nation.’ Under Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party, India has undergone the most total transformation since 1991. The ‘invisible threads’ Nehru said held together an improbable union divided by language, religion and ethnicity have snapped under the burden of Modi’s Hindu-supremacist rule. In this blistering critique of post-Independence India from Nehru to Modi, K.S. Komireddi charts the unsound course of Indian nationalism: its cowardly concessions to the Hindu right, convenient distortions of India’s past and demeaning bribes to India’s minorities. He argues that the missteps of the nation’s founders, the mistakes of Nehru, the betrayals of his daughter and her sons, the anti-democratic fetish for technocracy inaugurated by Narasimha Rao and carried to the extremes by Manmohan Singh—all of them laid down the road on which Hindu nationalists rode to absolute power. Hindu bigotry, ennobled under Modi as a healthy form of self-assertion, has reopened old fissures that threaten to devour India’s hard-won unity. Yet bad times have also smashed the citizenly complacency that brought India to this point. There are multitudes who now realise how extraordinary and brave the idea of India was to begin with; there is a resurgent struggle against its extinction, and the assertion of new voices to wrest the republic from the forces of religious majoritarianism. A short history of the modern Indian nation, Malevolent Republic is also an impassioned plea for India’s
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