A Possible India: Essays in Political Criticism

by Partha Chatterjee

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In this volume, one of India's foremost political scientists offers a richly detailed and critical analysis of Indian politics in the fifty years since independence. Using a variety of genres--essays, book reviews, commentaries and journal entries--Partha Chatterjee scans the entire period from the Nehru era through the through the regimes of Indira and Rajiv Gandhi to the present. He attempts to develop a true perspective on democracy in India, not in the cliche-ridden sense of government of, by, and for the people, but as politics of the governed.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0195647661

ISBN13:9780195647662

Release Date:March 1998

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:320 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"

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