The Idea of India
Sunil Khilnani is the author of The Idea of India and a Fellow at the Woodrow ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Center.
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Sunil Khilnani is the author of The Idea of India and a Fellow at the Woodrow ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Center.
It is popular in the West to think that the British influence led directly to Indian democracy. In fact, the vibrant democracy India has sustained for 50 years is really a product of the Indian political intelligentsia. Sunil Khilnani describes how Nehru and others invented their country at the time of independence.
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Sunil Khilnani
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Professor of Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London
Professor of Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London
