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India: The Siege Within: Challenges to a Nation's Unity

 
M.J. Akbar (Author)
Synopsis The Siege Within succeeds in explaining, as no other book has done, the resilient achievements of India's secular democracy as well as its vulnerability and failures. As such, it makes essential reading for everyone wishing to understand today's India. Here M.J. Akbar, one of India's most distinguished journalists, discusses the origins and nature of the strains on Indian unity which have deep roots in history. Taking 1947 as his springboard, he provides a full historical, political and cultural survey of the main pressure points, and brings his analysis up to date to include the removal of Farooq Abdullah in Kashmir, an account of his meeting with Bhindranwale, the army operation at the Golden temple, the assassination of Mrs. Indira Gandhi, and their implications for the future. Rising fundamentalism, separatism, the consequences of partition, unease in Kashmir--on every side it seems that India's democratic unity is continually at risk.
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About the author

M.J. Akbar

M.J. Akbar, founder and editor-in-chief of The Asian Age, a multi-edition daily newspaper, and the Deccan Chronicle is a leading journalist and author. After successfully launching and establishing a weekly newsmagazine, Sunday, and a daily newspaper, The Telegraph, in the 70s and 80s, he briefly interrupted his career in journalism to enter politics in November 1989 as an elected representative in Parliament. He returned to writing and editing in 1993. His last book, The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict Between Islam & Christianity, has gone into several editions, and has also been successfully published in the UK and US. His biography of India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, Nehru: The Making of a Nation, is a classic that remains in print more than a decade after it was first published, as does his analysis of the India-Pakistan conflict in Kashmir, Kashmir: Behind the Vale. His other books include India: The Seige Within, Riot After Riot, and a collection of his articles, Byline.

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Title India: The Siege Within: Challenges to a Nation's Unity
Author M.J. Akbar
Format Softcover
Date published: 01.01.2003
Edition Reprint
Publisher Roli Books
Language: English
isbn 8174362681
length viii+325p., Index; 22cm.