02-27-2004, 06:26 AM
Very interesting quote which tells us how the western institutions are interpreting the changes and predicting the future.
Oxford press is the leading press which comes up with these topics for more than 100 years.
By way of conclusion, the authors offer the prognosis that the "defining struggle" in Indian politics today is that between the "centralising instincts" of Hindu nationalism and the countervailing mobilisation of lower castes and subaltern groupings. The Indian state, they contend, may well be forced under the pressure of the new forms of political mobilisation to "do the bidding of India's lower orders". This would be the final act in the invention of the India that the Constituent Assembly had imagined. But in the bargain it is unlikely that either the political structure or the geography of India will remain unchanged.
This is an after thought for interpretation
It may be a productive line of inquiry to seek to correlate Indira Gandhi's first flirtations - and her son Rajiv Gandhi's more ardent embrace - of Hindu nationalism with the elite's quest for an alternative conception of nationhood to fill the vacuum caused by the retreat of the state.
The book seems to be an excerise of objective analysis but it is more of an propoganda for a goal persued by the authors.
Oxford press is the leading press which comes up with these topics for more than 100 years.
By way of conclusion, the authors offer the prognosis that the "defining struggle" in Indian politics today is that between the "centralising instincts" of Hindu nationalism and the countervailing mobilisation of lower castes and subaltern groupings. The Indian state, they contend, may well be forced under the pressure of the new forms of political mobilisation to "do the bidding of India's lower orders". This would be the final act in the invention of the India that the Constituent Assembly had imagined. But in the bargain it is unlikely that either the political structure or the geography of India will remain unchanged.
This is an after thought for interpretation
It may be a productive line of inquiry to seek to correlate Indira Gandhi's first flirtations - and her son Rajiv Gandhi's more ardent embrace - of Hindu nationalism with the elite's quest for an alternative conception of nationhood to fill the vacuum caused by the retreat of the state.
The book seems to be an excerise of objective analysis but it is more of an propoganda for a goal persued by the authors.