Ideal of India
Sunil Khilani
Ideal of India - London Hamish Hamilton 1997 - xviii,263 p. HB 22x14 cm.
THE IDEA OF INDIA was originally published to mark the 50th anniversary of India's independence and has since established itself as a uniquely valuable and authoritative book on a key subject. At the heart of India's self-image since independence has been 'the idea of India' - modern, technocratic, egalitarian, secular - but the tensions between the idea and the reality have become almost intolerable. With the legacy of Nehru and Gandhi everywhere under attack and ferociously religious and militant politicians in power has the idea of India lost all meaning?
0241135737
Indian History
Cilvilization
Nationalism
Caste
954.04 / KHII
Ideal of India - London Hamish Hamilton 1997 - xviii,263 p. HB 22x14 cm.
THE IDEA OF INDIA was originally published to mark the 50th anniversary of India's independence and has since established itself as a uniquely valuable and authoritative book on a key subject. At the heart of India's self-image since independence has been 'the idea of India' - modern, technocratic, egalitarian, secular - but the tensions between the idea and the reality have become almost intolerable. With the legacy of Nehru and Gandhi everywhere under attack and ferociously religious and militant politicians in power has the idea of India lost all meaning?
0241135737
Indian History
Cilvilization
Nationalism
Caste
954.04 / KHII
