The Idea of India: 20th Anniversary Edition Khilnani Sunil
The Idea of India: 20th Anniversary Edition Khilnani Sunil A classic since it was first published in 1997, The Idea of India is a magisterial historical study that addresses the paradoxes and ironies…
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The Idea of India: 20th Anniversary Edition Khilnani Sunil
A classic since it was first published in 1997, The Idea of India is a magisterial historical study that addresses the paradoxes and ironies of the world's largest democracy. For decades this elite would uphold a political construct, an idea of India grounded in democracy, religious tolerance, economic development, and cultural pluralism. When, in 1947, the British divided and departed their most prized imperial possession, they handed a huge, diverse, and poor society to a small nationalist elite.
Sunil Khilnani investigates the fate of this idea, offering incisive portraits of Gandhi, Nehru, and other Indian founders and assessing the lively debates among them and their successors over who is an Indian, the meaning of modernity, and India's place in the world.In a new introduction written for this edition, Khilnani reflects on the book's striking relevance to the
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