Lineages of the Present: Ideology and Politics in Contemporary South AsiaIn March 1998, India broke 25 years silence when it detonated a series of nuclear devices in the Rajasthan desert. Having announced it possessed the requisite credentials for membership in the nuclear club in 1974, India quickly disavowed any desire to join, pledging not to develop its capability further. The Pokhran explosions revealed that promise to have been broken. The principal beneficiary of its breaking was a right-wing government seeking to shore up its shaky base with committment to the Hindu bomb. |
Contents
Free and Divided | 3 |
Democracy and Dictatorship in Pakistan 197180 | 17 |
Roads Taken and Not Taken | 60 |
Recompositions of Nation | 103 |
Reading Gramsci in | 129 |
Communalist Offensive | 167 |
The Left Chooses | 209 |
The BJP in Government | 240 |
IndoPakistan Politics in | 301 |
Notes | 325 |
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