The Indian Ideology: Three Responses to Perry Anderso

by Partha Chatterjee

When the Marxist historian Perry Anderson published The Indian Ideology - his scathing assessment of India's democracy, secularism, nationalism and statehood - it created a furore. Anderson attacked subcontinental unity as a myth, castigated Mahatma Gandhi for infusing Hindu religiosity into nationalism, blamed Congress for Partition and saw India's liberal intelligentsia as by and large a feckless lot.Within the large array of responses to Anderson...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8178244837
• ISBN13: 9788178244839
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: United Nations
• Length: 176 Pages