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100 1 _aAnderson, Perry.
245 1 4 _a Indian ideology /
_cPerry Anderson.
246 _aThe Indian ideology
250 _aSecond enlarged edition
260 _aHaryana :
_bThree Essays Collective;
_c2015.
300 _a236 pages ;
_c22 cm
500 _aAmazon IN-2308 Rs.390/- Originally published: Gurgaon, India : Three Essays Collective, 2012.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
600 1 0 _aGandhi,
_cMahatma,
_d1869-1948.
600 1 0 _aNehru, Jawaharlal,
_d1889-1964.
650 0 _aPolitical culture
_zIndia.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia.
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650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
_2bisacsh
651 0 _aIndia
_xHistory
_xAutonomy and independence movements.
651 0 _aIndia
_xHistory
_yPartition, 1947.
651 0 _aIndia
_xPolitics and government
_y1947-
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