Malevolent Republic: A short history of the new India (Record no. 297278)

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International Standard Book Number 9789387894969
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Classification number 954
Item number KOM.M
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Personal name Komireddi, K S
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Title Malevolent Republic: A short history of the new India
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. India
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Cotext, Westland Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2019
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxxi,228p., Including Index
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Part One: ANTECEDENTS 1. Erosion 2. Surrender 3. Decadence 4. Dissolution Part Two: INDIA UNDER MODI 5. Cult 6. Chaos 7. Terror 8. Vanity 9. Seizure 10. Disunion Coda Notes Further Reading Acknowledgements Index
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Summary, etc. Under Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party, India has undergone the most total transformation since 1991. The 'invisible threads' Nehru said held together an improbable union divided by language, religion and ethnicity have snapped under the burden of Modi's Hindu-supremacist rule. In this blistering critique of post-Independence India from Nehru to Modi, K.S. Komireddi charts the unsound course of Indian nationalism: its cowardly concessions to the Hindu right, convenient distortions of India's past and demeaning bribes to India's minorities. He argues that the missteps of the nation's founders, the mistakes of Nehru, the betrayals of his daughter and her sons, the anti-democratic fetish for technocracy inaugurated by Narasimha Rao and carried to the extremes by Manmohan Singh-all of them laid down the road on which Hindu nationalists rode to absolute power. Hindu bigotry, ennobled under Modi as a healthy form of self-assertion, has reopened old fissures that threaten to devour India's hard-won unity. Yet bad times have also smashed the citizenly complacency that brought India to this point. There are multitudes who now realise how extraordinary and brave the idea of India was to begin with; there is a resurgent struggle against its extinction, and the assertion of new voices to wrest the republic from the forces of religious majoritarianism. A short history of the modern Indian nation, Malevolent Republic is also an impassioned plea for India's reclamation.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element India
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Topical term or geographic name entry element History of India
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Koha item type Book
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        Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center 07/08/2019   954 KOM.M DCB3752 07/08/2019 07/08/2019 Book