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100 1 _aAnderson, Perry.
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245 1 4 _aThe Indian ideology /
_cPerry Anderson.
250 _aPaperback edition
300 _a191 pages ;
_c21 cm
500 _aOriginally published: Gurgaon, India : Three Essays Collective, 2012.
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.
650 0 _aPolitical culture
_zIndia.
_922071
650 7 _aHISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia.
_2bisacsh
_921972
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
_2bisacsh
_922072
264 1 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bVerso,
_c2013.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
600 1 0 _aGandhi,
_cMahatma,
_d1869-1948.
_922073
600 1 0 _aNehru, Jawaharlal,
_d1889-1964.
_922074
651 0 _aIndia
_xHistory
_xAutonomy and independence movements.
_922075
651 0 _aIndia
_xHistory
_yPartition, 1947.
_922076
651 0 _aIndia
_xPolitics and government
_y1947-
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