TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - The Indian ideology
A1  - Anderson, Perry
LA  - eng
PP  - London ; New York
PB  - Verso
YR  - 2021
ED  - Expanded second edition
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5533222
AB  - "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"--
NO  - Originally published: Gurgaon, India : Three Essays Collective, 2012.
SN  - 978-1-78873-271-0 pehmeäkantinen
KW  - Gandhi, : Mahatma, : 1869-1948.
KW  - Nehru, Jawaharlal, : 1889-1964.
KW  - Political culture : India.
KW  - India : History : History : Autonomy and independence movements.
KW  - India : History : Partition, 1947.
KW  - India : Politics and government : 1947-
ER  -