Interview - Ramchandra Guha
I suppose Dr Manmohan Singh represents the modern idiom, and someone like Medha Patkar the saintly idiom. However, most important or successful leaders nowadays practice one or other version of identity politics—and thus would qualify as ‘traditional’ in the terms of Morris-Jones. Caste, region, religion—these continue to shape and define how politicians win elections and how they run their administrations.
Chandrahas at The Middle Stage talks to Ramchandra Guha, author of India After Gandhi. I am currently plowing through this interesting book and only wish the interview had been longer especially with the bits Guha edited out.
























3 comments
Chandrahas
February 27th, 2008, 11:31 pm | #
Patrix - There are no bits edited out in the interview.
Patrix
February 27th, 2008, 11:39 pm | #
Chandrahas, I meant about the bits that never made it to the book.
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February 29th, 2008, 1:58 pm | #
[...] While you are on his blog, don’t forget to read ‘Inscrutable India - A Rough Guide’. The last word - India is confusing as a nation. India is comforting as a notion - is funny yet insightfully tragic; one of the best one-liners I’ve read in a while [especially after reading India after Gandhi] [...]
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