Battles Half Won : India’s Improbable Democracy by Ashutosh Varshney
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Overview: Sixty years and more after Indian’s constitution was framed, the nation still faces demarcation of her states. Before the constitution was even framed, the Britishers themselves doubted that India could hold together, after all, as Battles Half Won goes on to tell us, India’s democracy has forever been all but probable.
Summary of the Book
A collection of essays, this book examines issues important to India today, issues such as the forging and consolidation of India’s democracy, Hindu nationalism, inter-caste politics and ethnic conflict. The book shows readers how the nation was divided on the basis of language to build stability, but how that is no longer a valid method as governance and regional underdevelopment will continue to drive the formation of new states now. Lucid language and lively description lend weight to this book in its efforts to examine Indian failures and successes, eventually helping us understand the meaning of Indian democracy.
Genre: Nonfiction,General
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