Some of them have been proscribed by thin-skinned governments that ran India, amongst the best-known beingĬrisis of India by Ronald Segal. How To Hide An Empire- A History Of The Greater United States, in which he details the near genocidal violence and racism that accompanied the growth of America and hurts it to this day.īooks deeply critical of India have appeared in the past. Komireddi compels the reader to unambiguously confront India’s past with all its bigotry - of caste, religion and ethnicity - just as Daniel Immerwahr does in Komireddi does that job magnificently in his book. However, it is equally important for us to get past an airbrushed account of India’s past as a historically communal and religious idyll, and really get to know it, warts and all. There is so much good that’s happened to this country since Independence.
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