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Author: Ananya Vajpeyi
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.635kg
ISBN: 9780674048959
ISBN 10: 0674048954
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 31 October 2012
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Ananya Vajpeyi's Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India is a book that everyone interested in the evolution of the ideas that shaped the modern Indian nation should read.--Manjula Narayan Hindustan Times (01/26/2013)
Ananya Vajpeyi's Righteous Republic is a unique addition to the discourse around the themes of India's negotiation with its colonial past and its present political framework...Vajpeyi excels at what she does in the present volume, however, and the book is informed with high standards of intellectual rigour, analytical acuity and--last but certainly not the least--an eminently readable, nearly jargon-free prose.--Suparna Banerjee The Hindu (04/09/2013)
Ananya Vajpeyi's Righteous Republic is quite simply the most important interpretation of the evolution of India's contemporary nationhood since Sunil Khilnani's The Idea of India , and a useful antidote to the revisionist Imperialism of rising British star-historians like Andrew Roberts and Niall Ferguson...Fluently written, cogent in argument, studded with penetrating insights, telling aphorisms, with complete mastery of her material, consistently brilliant expression and exposition, this young philosopher-historian takes her definitive place as a commentator and synthesizer of the often varied and contradictory approaches to the idea of India.--Mani Shankar Aiyar Financial Express (02/24/2013)
R ighteous Republic is compelling reading about India and its ideological moorings in the making of, during and through the independence movement... Righteous Republic is a book of its own kind, written by a historian; it circumambulates multiple disciplinary terrains: art history, cultural criticism, literary theory, religious studies, and political and cultural history. It also uses poetry, paintings, murals, religious texts and archaeological finds for narrative and analysis. And yet, in covering multiple canvasses in drawing up a complex picture, Vajpeyi does not lose the focus of her research design. A complex subject, dealt with in a multidisciplinary perspective, explained with original and evocative arguments, yet written in lucid and imaginative language, the book is essential reading not only for professional social scientists, but also for anyone interested in comprehending India's ideological moorings in a fresh perspective.--Ajay K. Mehra India International Centre Quarterly (07/01/2013)
Author Information
Ananya Vajpeyi is Fellow and Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi.
