{"product_id":"9781781682609","title":"The Indian Ideology","description":"Today, the Indian state claims to embody the values of a stable   political democracy, a harmonious territorial unity, and a steadfast   religious impartiality. Even many of those critical of the inequalities   of Indian society underwrite such claims. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Indian Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e suggests that the roots of the current ills of the Republic go much   deeper, historically. They lie, in the way the struggle for independence   culminated in the transfer of power from British rule to Congress in a   divided subcontinent, not least in the roles played by Gandhi as the   great architect of the movement, and Nehru as his appointed successor,   in the catastrophe of Partition. Only an honest reckoning with that   disaster, Perry Anderson argues, offers an understanding of what has   gone wrong with the Republic since Independence. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe “Idea of   India,” widely diffused not only in the official establishment, but more   broadly in mainstream intellectual life, side-steps or suppresses many   of these uncomfortable realities, past and present. For its own  reasons,  much of the left has yet to challenge the upshot: what has  come to be  the neo-Nehruvian consensus of the time. \u003ci\u003eThe Indian Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e,   revisiting the events of over a century in the light of how millions  of  Indians fare in the Republic today, suggests another way of looking  at  the country.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114477175024,"sku":"9781781682609","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781781682609_p0.jpg?v=1763717250","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781781682609","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}