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Date de parution
15 septembre 2013
Nombre de lectures
1
EAN13
9789351183099
Langue
English
Ramachandra Guha
Hindutva Hate Mail
CONTENTS ~ Dedication
Preface: The Case for Polemical Moderation
PART I: DEBATING DEMOCRACY
1. Redeeming the Republic
2. A Short History of Congress Chamchagiri -->
Hindutva Hate Mail 4. The Past and Future of the Indian Left
5. The Professor and the Protester
6. Gandhi s Faith and Ours
7. Verdicts on Nehru: The Rise and Fall of a Reputation
8. An Asian Clash of Civilizations? The Sino-Indian Conflict Revisited
9. The Beauty of Compromise
PART II: THE WORD AND THE WORLD
10. The Rise and Fall of the Bilingual Intellectual
11. Pluralism in the Indian University
12. In Nehru s House: A Story of Scholarship and Sycophancy
13. Life with a Duchess: A Personal History of the Oxford University Press
14. Turning Crimson at Premier s
15. The Gentle Colossus: Krishna Raj and the EPW
Sources
Acknowledgements -->
Copyright Page
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Hindutva Hate Mail ~
I
I was born in a home of broad-minded Hindus. My father, though by caste a Brahmin, never wore a thread. His own father s brother was a lifelong opponent of the caste system; a hostel he opened for Dalit students still functions in Bangalore city. My mother went from time to time to a temple, but was happy to eat with or make food for humans of any background or creed. Two of her brothers had married out of caste; a third had married a German.
When, in 1984, I got my first job, at the Centre for Social Studies in Calcutta, I had to fill in a questionnaire which, among other things, asked me to denote my religion. I wrote Hindu , immediately attracting the ire of a friend who worked at the same centre. He felt that a secular state had no business asking for a person s religion, and thus I should have left the answer blank.
