Indira Gandhi’s Emergence and Style by Nayantara Sahgal offers a psychological and political portrait of Indira Gandhi, focusing on her personality, leadership style, and how she rose to power. Sahgal dissects the interplay between Indira’s familial inheritance (as Nehru’s daughter) and her own temperament, arguing that her political behavior and decision-making were deeply shaped by her …
Sunil Khilnani's The Idea of India is a profound historical-political study of the post-independence Indian state project. Khilnani explores the paradoxes and ironies of modern India's identity: a major multi-ethnic, secular, and pluralistic democracy, yet also facing poverty, religious tensions, and doubts about its national identity. He explores the role of figures like Gandhi and Nehru…
The French Revolution broke down the barriers of class and estate. It propelled the world forward into the modern age, one that placed the individual at the centre of the political system, and gave birth to the modern Republic and to the nation state. We in India have been keen students of the Revolution and the subsequent development of democratic institutions in France.
A cutting-edge exploration of America's stake in India's ongoing efforts to become a global power depicts the region as the world's fastest-growing center of technology, global economics, and democracy, outlining the challenges facing the country to enable rapid change in environmentally sustainable and politically viable ways.