The Idea of India

The Idea of India

by SunilKhilnani (Author)

Synopsis

The key book on India in the postnuclear era, with a new Introduction by the author.Our appreciation of the importance of India can only increase in light of the recent revelations of its nuclear capabilities. Sunil Khilnani's exciting, timely study addresses the paradoxes and ironies of this, the world's largest democracy. Throughout his penetrating, provocative work, he illuminates this fundamental issue: Can the original idea of India survive its own successes?

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Edition: New
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 26 Mar 1998

ISBN 10: 0140250581
ISBN 13: 9780140250589

Media Reviews
A splid-and timely-book . . . Spirited, combative and insight-filled . . . Khilnani has woven a rich analysis of contemporary India and its evolution since indepence. I am inclined to agree with [him] on the robustness and staying power of the secular idea of India. --Amartya Sen, The Times Literary Supplement A masterful rebuttal to all cultural romantics and religious chauvinists . . . [A] splid book about definitions of the Indian nation. --Ian Buruma, The New York Review of Books Especially brilliant is Khilnani's attempt to understand the changing nature of India by studying its urban constructs. --Chitra Divakaruni, Los Angeles Times Book Review