Khilnani's superb historical analysis conveys modern India's energy, fluidity, and unpredictability-in its democracy and its voting patterns, in its visions of economic development, in its diverse cities and devotion to village culture, and in its current disputes over its political identity. 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. He is the Avantha professor and the director of the. The Idea of India: 20th Anniversary Edition 16.30 (8) Only 1 left in stock - order soon. Sunil Khilnani's exciting book addresses the paradoxes and ironies that have surrounded this project of inventing India-a project that has brought Indians considerable political freedom and carried their enormous democracy to the verge of being Asia's greatest free state but that has also left many of them in poverty and that is now threatened by divisive religious nationalism. Sunil Khilnani is the author of Incarnations: A History of India in Fifty Lives and The Idea of India. The new country was then driven by a belief in a political construct, the idea of India, an idea that for decades animated the citizens' efforts to unite their huge, diverse, and poor society and to transform it into a modern state fit to join the irreversible movement of world history. of London) argues, has a far wider relevance than it is.

Khilnani writes that the India known to us is the result of various ideas. Fifty years ago the British divided and departed from their most prized imperial possession, handing over the new Indian state to a small nationalist elite led by Jawaharlal Nehru. A profound meditation on the meaning and significance of India, which, Khilnani (Politics/Univ. Khilnanis book is focused on India as an idea on different stages of history.

The Idea of India by Sunil Khilnani