Sunil Khilnani

The Idea of India (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

THE IDEA OF INDIA was originally published to mark the 50th anniversary of India's independence and has since established itself as a uniquely valuable and authoritative book on a key subject. At the heart of India's self-image since independence has been 'the idea of India' - modern, technocratic, egalitarian, secular - but the tensions between the idea and the reality have become almost intolerable. With the legacy of Nehru and Gandhi everywhere under attack and ferociously religious and militant politicians in power has the idea of India lost all meaning?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141937243
• Artikelnr.: 39188363

Autorenporträt

Sunil Khilnani was born in Delhi and educated at Cambridge. He was a fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge, has taught politics at Birkbeck College, University of London and is now based at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC. He is writing a biography of Nehru for Penguin.