424 Pages
by
Routledge
424 Pages
by
Routledge
424 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book sketches the history of political forces in modern India. It begins defining these political categories of left, right and far-right with the usual reference to French Revolution (for want of an indigenous equivalent), and discusses movement of forces towards left, or towards the right from the balance of socio-political forces or status quo at a point of time in India. It recalls... Read more
Acknowledgements
Preface
Abbreviations
1. We Our Nationhood Defined
2. Left Turn at the Top 1969-76
3. Curious Case of Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan: Unlikely Messiah
4. Gradualism, Marginal Redistribution: Confusion on the Left, Consolidation on the Right
5. Far Right at the Centre
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Anuradha Kalhan has a Ph.D. in Economics. Kalhan has taught in Mumbai for three decades. She was an elected member of the Senate in the University of Mumbai, and a fellow at Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi. Currently, she is an independent writer and researcher, and has published two books and numerous papers. She spends her time between India, USA and the UK.
