The Idea of India: 20th Anniversary Edition

A classic since it was first published in 1997, The Idea of India is a magisterial historical...
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Author: Sunil Khilnani
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Language: English
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The Idea of India: 20th Anniversary Edition by Khilnani, Sunil

The Idea of India: 20th Anniversary Edition

€29,35

The Idea of India: 20th Anniversary Edition

€29,35
Author: Sunil Khilnani
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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. 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. For decades this elite would uphold a political construct, an idea of India grounded in democracy, religious tolerance, economic development, and cultural pluralism. 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 country's recent developments--from the rise of a new billionaire class to the election of a government with a more exclusivist conception of Indian identity. Throughout, he provokes readers and illuminates a fundamental question as urgent now as ever: Can the original idea of India survive its own successes?

Author: Sunil Khilnani
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 11/21/2017
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780374537623

About the Author
Sunil Khilnani is the author of Incarnations: A History of India in Fifty Lives and Arguing Revolution: The Intellectual Left in Postwar France. He is the Avantha Professor and Director of the India Institute at King's College London and a visiting professor at Princeton University. He is married to the writer Katherine Boo.

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