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100			_aSunil Khilani _911728
245			_aIdeal of India
260			_aLondon _bHamish Hamilton _c1997
300			_axviii,263 p. _bHB _c22x14 cm.
365			_b17.99 _c£ _d17.99
520			_aTHE IDEA OF INDIA was originally published to mark the 50th anniversary of India's independence and has since established itself as a uniquely valuable and authoritative book on a key subject. At the heart of India's self-image since independence has been 'the idea of India' - modern, technocratic, egalitarian, secular - but the tensions between the idea and the reality have become almost intolerable. With the legacy of Nehru and Gandhi everywhere under attack and ferociously religious and militant politicians in power has the idea of India lost all meaning?
650			_aIndian History _911729
650			_aCilvilization _911730
650			_aNationalism _911731
650			_aCaste _911732
700			_aKHILANI (Sunil) _911733
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