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Komireddi, which chronicles the rise of Hindu Nationalism in India. We do perceive pride as a legitimate emotion in the national context. Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India is a book by Indian author K. If secularists fail to reclaim the republic from Hindu nationalists, Komireddi argues, India will become Pakistan by another name. Malevolent republic is a terrifying and hard-hitting account of the political, social, and religious landscape of India, casting merciless eyes upon all prime ministers, from Nehru to Modi, with no corner left untouched. In this blistering critique of India from Indira Gandhi to the present, Komireddi lays bare the cowardly concessions to the Hindu right, convenient distortions of India s past and demeaning bribes to minorities that led to Modi s decisive electoral victory. Congress now mimics Modi other parties pray for a miracle. Bigotry has been ennobled as a healthy form of self-assertion, and anti-Muslim vitriol has deluged the mainstream, with religious minorities living in terror of a vengeful majority. Indian democracy, honed over decades, is now the chief enabler of Hindu extremism. Since 2014, the ruling BJP has unleashed forces that are irreversibly transforming the country. Malevolent Republic is required reading for anyoneeither in India or outside of itseeking to better understand the precarious position in which India finds itself today. and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. India is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions. : Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India (9781787380059) by Komireddi, K.S. After decades of imperfect secularism, presided over by an often corrupt Congress establishment, Nehru s diverse republic has yielded to Hindu nationalism.
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