Reinventing India: Liberalization, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy by John Harriss, Stuart Corbridge

Reinventing India: Liberalization, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy

John Harriss, Stuart Corbridge

313 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

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When India was invented as a "modern" country in the years after Independence in 1947 it styled itself as a secular, federal, democratic Republic committed to an ideology of development. Nehru's India never quite fulfilled this promise, but more r...

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