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Date de parution
15 septembre 2013
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9789351183105
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English
Ramachandra Guha
The Past and Future of the Indian Left
CONTENTS ~ Dedication
Preface: The Case for Polemical Moderation
PART I: DEBATING DEMOCRACY
1. Redeeming the Republic
2. A Short History of Congress Chamchagiri
3. Hindutva Hate Mail -->
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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The Past and Future of the Indian Left ~
There was a great Marxist named Lenin Who did two or three million men in. That s a lot to have done in, But where he did one in, That great Marxist Stalin did ten in.
-Robert Conquest
I
In elections held in the summer of 2011, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) lost power in the state of Kerala, and, more damagingly, in West Bengal, where it had ruled for thirty-four years at a stretch. These defeats call for a detached, dispassionate analysis of the place of the party in the history of modern India. In what manner, and to what extent, did politicians committed in theory to the construction of a one-party state reconcile themselves in practice to bourgeois democracy? What were the sources of the CPI(M) s electoral appeal in Kerala and West Bengal? How were its policies constrained or enabled by its ideology of Marxism-Leninism? How should this ideology be rethought or reworked in the light of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the manifest attachment of the people of India to multi-party democracy? How might the CPI(M) restore and reinvent itself after these electoral reversals in Kerala and West Bengal?
In seeking to answer these questions, I shall start with the analysis of a printed text.
