The book came sometime in early when India was getting ready for the upcoming elections. Scrupulously researched, The Fiction of Fact finding draws telling parallels between Gujarat and the massacre of Sikhs in Delhi to underline an insidious pattern in Indian democracy the subversion of the criminal justice system, under a shroud of legal platitudes, by the ruling dispensation.
Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer no Kindle device required. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. The Fiction of Fact - finding : Modi and Godhra. Good governance as sushasan Since chief minister Narendra Modi has responded to allegations of human rights violations in India TV.
New Delhi: HarperCollins. They could find nothing against Narendra Modi to make a bad case against him except for one thing, that the communal New Delhi: HarperCollins. They could find nothing against Narendra Modi to make a bad case against him except for one thing, that the communal Congress only focused at transmuting fiction into fact to galvanize the common man, middle class intelligentsia, Skip to content And none has been subjected to as much fact-finding.
Author : Angana P. Author : Steven J. In this blistering critique of India from Indira Gandhi to the present, Komireddi lays bare the cowardly concessions to the Hindu right, convenient distortions of India's past and demeaning bribes to minorities that led to Modi's decisive electoral victory.
If secularists fail to reclaim the republic from Hindu nationalists, Komireddi argues, India will become Pakistan by another name. He has a free hand to unite Indians in joint endeavour for national greatness and forge a social compact based on citizenship and not on identity.
This book is a non-judgemental look at Modi from the viewpoint of the liberal Indian. It examines his economic stewardship of Gujarat and philosophy of governance. Modi has an opportunity to create economic conditions for people to pursue dignified livelihoods rather than depend on the state for jobs and doles.
Hopefully Modi will take everybody along and also reshape the BJP as a liberal, right-of-centre party. Most had predicted that his government would concentrate on domestic issues, on the growth and development demanded by Indian voters, and that he lacked necessary experience in international relations. The volume will be of great importance to scholars and researchers of Indian politics, public policy, sociology, and social policy.
Dictators and Autocrats Author : Klaus Larres Publisher : Routledge Release Date : Genre: History Pages : ISBN 10 : GET BOOK Dictators and Autocrats Book Description : In order to truly understand the emergence, endurance, and legacy of autocracy, this volume of engaging essays explores how autocratic power is acquired, exercised, and transferred or abruptly ended through the careers and politics of influential figures in more than 20 countries and six regions.
The authors touch on a wide range of autocratic and dictatorial figures in the past and present, including present-day autocrats, such as Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, military leaders, and democratic leaders with authoritarian aspirations. They analyze the transition of selected autocrats from democratic or benign semi-democratic systems to harsher forms of autocracy, with either quite disastrous or more successful outcomes.
Were some reported incidents exaggerations or were they real brutal facts? The answers to all these questions are given comprehensively. A simple reading of the book will throw enough light and arm the readers with strong facts to make up their mind.
The events at Godhra and the ensuing communal carnage in Gujarat, like the Babri Masjid demolition and the massacres, constitute an ugly chapter of our contemporary history. For the sheer brutality, persistence and widespread nature of the violence, especially against women and children, the complicity of the State, the ghettoization of communities, and the indifference of civil society, Gujarat has surpassed anything we have experienced in recent times.
That this happened in one of India's most 'well off' and 'progressive' states, the home of the Mahatma, is all the more alarming. This book is intended to be a permanent public archive of the tragedy that is Gujarat. Drawing upon eyewitness reports from the English, Hindi and regional media, citizens' and official fact-finding commissions - and articles by leading public figures and intellectuals - it provides a chilling account of how and why the state was allowed to burn.
With an overview by the editor, the reader covers the circumstances leading up to Godhra and the violence in Ahmedabad, Baroda and rural Gujarat. Separate sections deal with the role of the police, bureaucracy, Sangh Parivar, media and the tribals, the economic and international implications of the violence, the problems of relief and rehabilitation of the victims, and, above all, their quest for justice.
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