Righteous Republic by Ananya Vajpeyi6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The opening lines of this text resonate with tired normative phrases from the trite history textbooks students are prescribed year after year by the Indian government - swaraj is self-rule - and all nationalist leaders were supposedly absorbed and united in this one endeavour.Ī few political theorists and several historians of national history have, over the last six decades, pulled themselves away from these formulaic enforced accounts of Indian history, pointing instead to the different and often contradictory approaches to political life in India and to colonialism. The preface is a revisionist primer on Indian nationalism, written perhaps for a western audience entirely unfamiliar with any aspect of Indian political thought. I doubt that Ananya Vajpeyi's Righteous Republic is the 'ground-breaking assessment of Indian political thought' that some scholars have claimed it is. On The Limits of Middle-Class Radicalism. ![]() Hindutva Terror in Karnataka: Malleswaram or Was I.Citizens Protest against John Kerry's Visit to New.Protests in Turkey: Resistance to the Arbitrary Ru. ![]()
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