The Idea of India

This is one of the key books on modern India, acclaimed as the definitive account, and now republished with a new introduction.
«The Idea of India» was originally published to mark the 50th anniversary of India's independence and has since established itself as a uniquely valuable and authoritative book on a key subject. At the heart of India's self-image since independence has been «the idea of India» — modern, technocratic, egalitarian, secular — but the tensions between the idea and the real