The Idea of India
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.23 (662 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374174172 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 263 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Steve M said elegant and historical but missing the india of today. This is a very elegantly written book, the writing style is nice. Khilnani is right about one thing - that the architect of India is Nehru who helped build a western democracy with good values and who strove through over 15 years as prime minister to cement it. This foundation has been good for India allowed everyone to partic. Umair Ahmed Muhajir said A sensitive and nuanced appraisal. In an era that abounds with superficial books on South Asia, Khilnani's is an insightful and sensitive book, though perhaps somewhat out of sync (and this is not a criticism) with the contemporary Indian urban middle-class mood, which delights in denigrating all things perceived as "Nehruvian"; some of the other reviewers have. Thoughtful and elegantly There's been a spate of world class Indo-Anglian fiction over the last two decades (Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Vikram Seth, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Vikram Chandra, Rohinton Mistry, Anita Desai the list grows at an increasingly rapid pace). However, I've long lamented the dearth of (quality) non-fiction in the Indo-Anglian stab
The key book on India in the postnuclear era, with a new Introduction by the author.Our appreciation of the importance of India can only increase in light of the recent revelations of its nuclear capabilities. Throughout his penetrating, provocative work, he illuminates this fundamental issue: Can the original idea of India survive its own successes?. Sunil Khilnani's exciting, timely study addresses the paradoxes and ironies of this, the world's largest democracy
Riddick, Central Michigan Univ. From Library Journal Khilnani (politics, Univ. Lib., Mt. In the process, national identity has in Khilnani's vision been subsumed by regional political focuses, urban and rural divisions, and greater religious identification. Hence, India's future will necessitate the continuance of a viable democracy sustaining the economic, cultural, and social diversity of the subcontinent. For informed readers.?John F. PleasantCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. . Juxtaposed to this trend is the breakup of the Congress Party's hegemony and the subsequent growth of regional political parties. The author skillfully draws out the i