The Indian Ideology
(Sprache: Englisch)
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.
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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.
The "Idea of India," widely diffused not only in the official establishment, but more broadly in mainstream intellectual life, side-steps or suppresses many of these uncomfortable realities, past and present. For its own reasons, much of the left has yet to challenge the upshot: what has come to be the neo-Nehruvian consensus of the time. The Indian Ideology , revisiting the events of over a century in the light of how millions of Indians fare in the Republic today, suggests another way of looking at the country.
Autoren-Porträt von Perry Anderson
Perry Anderson, geboren 1938, lehrt in Los Angeles Geschichte an der University of California. Er ist einer der einflussreichsten politischen Essayisten, die Großbritannien nach dem Krieg hervorgebracht hat. Seine Beiträge erscheinen regelmäßig im »London Review of Books« und im »New Left Review«.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Perry Anderson
- 2013, 200 Seiten, Maße: 14,2 x 20,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Verso Books
- ISBN-10: 1781682593
- ISBN-13: 9781781682593
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.10.2013
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Englisch
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"Perry Anderson brings together a set of arguments that will be received with disquiet by the scholars and ideologues who have constructed a celebratory, self-righteous consensus about the Indian Republic. Instead of writing off the unspeakable violence and egregious injustice in our society as aberrations in an otherwise successful model, Anderson points to serious structural flaws and the deep seated social prejudices of those who have administered the Indian State in the decades since Independence. It is important to read this book seriously, with equanimity and an open mind, instead of flinching and turning away from it." Arundhati Roy
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