TY - BOOK AU - Anderson, Perry TI - The Indian Ideology: : with Replies to Questions and Criticisms SN - 9789383968091 U1 - 954.04 PY - 2012/// CY - Gurgaon PB - Three Essays KW - The Indian Ideology suggests that the roots of the current ills of the Republic go much deeper, historically. They lie, it argues, 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 a honest reckoning with that disaster, Perry Anderson argues, offers an understanding of what has gone wrong with the Republic since Independence ER -