India Invented: A Nation-in-the Making - Softcover

Das, Arvind N

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8173040818 ISBN 13: 9788173040818

Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors, 2005

Synopsis

The future of India has been the subject of several pressing questions in the recent past particularly after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the demolition of the Soviet Union, the demolition of the Babri Masjid and the country's embarking on an adventurist globalisation-liberalisation programme. What constitutes India? And will it hold together? Today the strains on India are showing. Over-centralisation, communal conflict, caste rivalries, linguistic and ethnic assertions -- have all taken a toll of the ideals on which modern India is premised. This book addresses itself to the problem of conceptualising and understanding India. It concludes that what constitutes India is republicanism and if practice has subverted the ideal, it is perhaps time to devise another method of actualising the vision. What we may be witnessing is the messy birth of India's second republic and the re-invention of a nation in the image of its common people.

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About the Author

Arvind N. Das has worked as Editor (Research) of The Times of India and has been a Professor at the Centre for Social Studies, Surat, and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Asian Studies, Amsterdam. He has published several books on agrarian and other issues.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8173040818
• ISBN 13: 9788173040818
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 282