000			01403nam a22001697a 4500
020			_a9780143429128
082			_a320.954 _bRAM/I
100			_aRamachandra Guha
245			_aDemocrats and dissenters
260			_aHaryana _bPenguin Random House _c2016
300			_a355p.
520			_aA major new collection of essays by Ramachandra Guha, Democrats and Dissenters is a work of rigorous scholarship on topics of compelling contemporary interest, written with elegance and wit. The book covers a wide range of themes: from the varying national projects of India's neighbours to political debates within India itself, from the responsibilities of writers to the complex relationship between democracy and violence. It has essays critically assessing the work of Amartya Sen and Eric Hobsbawm, commentaries on the tragic predicament of tribals in India--who are, as Guha demonstrates, far worse off than Dalits or Muslims, yet get a fraction of the attention--and on the peculiar absence of a tradition of conservative intellectuals in India. Each essay takes up an important topic or an influential intellectual, as a window to explore major political and cultural debates in India and the world. Democrats and Dissenters is a book that is widely read, and even more widely discussed.
650			_aPolitics and government -India
650			_aDemocracy
650			_aSouth Asia
942			_cBK
999			_c63173 _d63173