TY - BOOK AU - Anderson,Perry TI - Indian ideology SN - 9789383968091 (pbk.) U1 - 954.04 AND PY - 2015/// CY - Haryana PB - Three Essays Collective KW - Gandhi, KW - Nehru, Jawaharlal, KW - Political culture KW - India KW - HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia KW - bisacsh KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism KW - History KW - Autonomy and independence movements KW - Partition, 1947 KW - Politics and government KW - 1947- N1 - Amazon IN-2308 Rs.390/- Originally published: Gurgaon, India : Three Essays Collective, 2012; Includes bibliographical references and indexes N2 - "Today, the Indian state claims to embody the values of a stable political democracy, a harmonious territorial unity, and a steadfast religious impartiality. Even many of those critical of the inequalities of Indian society underwrite such claims. The Indian Ideology suggests that the roots of the current ills of the Republic go much deeper, historically. They lie, 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 has gone wrong with the Republic since Independence"-- ER -