The New India
The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy
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Narrated by:
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Homer Todiwala
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By:
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Rahul Bhatia
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'Remarkable... fascinating... brilliant' Guardian
Based on six years of detailed research and on-the-ground reporting, the book builds - authoritatively, vividly, indelibly - to become the story of post-colonial India. Using hundreds of interviews, and letters, diary entries, Partition-era police reports, and an astonishing range of sources, Bhatia shows how history plays a recurring role in the present: in politics, in the minds of citizens, in notions of justice and corruption.
Bhatia examines the connections between the Delhi riots of 2020 and the emergence of nineteenth-century revolutionary secret societies, the rise of Hindu nationalism, whose early advocates drew lessons from Hitler and Mussolini, the political use of misinformation and religious targeting, and the Hindu fundamentalist ideology that sparked the creation of the world's largest biometric project. As Bhatia shows, the evolution of this citizen database, in the hands of the BJP, now threatens to deny vast numbers of India's 200 million Muslims their Indian citizenship. Electorates in democracies used to choose their government. Now, in India, the government is choosing its electorate.
India has rarely been seen as in The New India, a monumental work of narrative reportage that illuminates the ways in which a supremacist ideology remade the country over decades, resulting in the prodigious rise of Narendra Modi, and forcing many to ask what they truly understood about their neighbours and themselves.©2024 Rahul Bhatia (P)2024 Hachette Audio UK
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- K12
- 27-02-2025
Fascinating story of modern India changing told through the lens of journalist giving a voice to everyday Indians
What a journey! Sad, depressing, funny and insightful. Overall a great book, I did get lost at times as to who was speaking with numerous important stories and people. But came together beautifully and thoughtful at the end. The stories told may go untold in India also what India has experienced policial and socially …now off to find more work by the author
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