Citation
Anderson, Perry. The Indian Ideology. Verso Books, 2013. Google Books Link
Excerpts
| Page | Quote | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 47 | In the 1940s: “Supplying the force from which Congress had always shrunk [because of ideology of non-violence], the Japanese Army swept through Southeast Asia, knocking over French, Dutch, and British positions within a few weeks.” | |
| 68 | Citation: Copland, The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire (1997) | |
| 97 | Citation: “Before the Leviathan: Sectarian Violence in Pre-Colonial India”, in Kaushik Basu and Sanjay Subrahamanyan, Unravelling the Nation: Sectarian Conflict and India’s Secular Identity (1996) | |
| 122 | Citation: Nirmal Nibedon, North-East India: The Ethnic Explosion (1981) | |
| 125 | After noticing in 1935 that British treaty lexicon failed to include McMahon Line: “all copies of the lexicon were recalled for destruction, and a backdated one was produced by the Foreign Office with a forged year of publication”[!] | |
| 127 | Citation: M. Taylor Fravel. Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China’s Territorial Disputes (Princeton UP, 2008) | |
| 138 | ”With his [Ambedkar’s] exit went the only outspoken adversary of Hindu ascendancy at large ever to serve in an Indian cabinet.” | |
| 144 | ”The hand of the AFSPA has fallen where the reach of Hinduism has stopped. The three great insurgencies against the Indian state have come in Kashmir, Nagaland-Mizoram, and Punjab – regions respectively Muslim, Christian, and Sikh.” |
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Abstract
The historiography of modern India is largely a pageant of presumed virtues: harmonious territorial unity, religious impartiality, the miraculous survival of electoral norms in the world’s most populous democracy. Even critics of injustices within Indian society still underwrite such claims. But how well does the ‘Idea of India’ correspond to the realities of the Union?In an iconoclastic intervention, Marxist historian Perry Anderson provides an unforgettable reading of the Subcontinent’s passage through Independence and the catastrophe of Partition, the idiosyncratic and corrosive vanities of Gandhi and Nehru, and the close interrelationship of Indian democracy and caste inequality. The Indian Ideology caused uproar on first publication in 2012, not least for breaking with euphemisms for Delhi’s occupation of Kashmir. This new, expanded edition includes the author’s reply to his critics, an interview with the late Praful Bidwai of the Indian weekly Outlook, and a postscript on India under the rule of Narendra Modi. Anderson considers whether his regime is as much of a break with the practices and thought processes of Congress rule as is generally supposed.
Metadata
FirstAuthor:: Anderson, Perry
Title:: The Indian Ideology ShortTitle:: Year:: 2013
Citekey:: anderson_indian_2013
itemType:: book
Publisher:: Verso Books
ISBN:: 978-1-78168-554-9