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100 1 _aAnderson, Perry.
245 1 4 _aThe Indian ideology /
_cPerry Anderson.
250 _aPaperback edition
300 _a191 pages ;
_c21 cm
365 _d978
500 _aOriginally 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"--
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.
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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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