The Indian Ideology by Perry Anderson
A contrarian, polemical reassessment of modern India that challenges the dominant nationalist narrative and the postcolonial consensus, arguing that founding myths about liberal democracy, secularism and the benign role of the Congress-era elite obscure deep social cleavages, institutional weaknesses and the enduring problems of caste, communalism and territorial conflict (notably Kashmir and the legacy of Partition). The book contends that successive political leaders cultivated a self-congratulatory mythology which downplays state violence, elite manipulation of history and the limits of constitutional remedies, and it calls for a more critical, historically grounded appraisal of how Indian political institutions and social hierarchies actually function.
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- 2012
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- British
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- English
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