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A New Idea of India: Individual Rights in a Civilisational
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Foreword by Sanjeev Sanyal
‘A clear look into India’s political, social and economic history
unobstructed by decades of agenda-driven narratives that sought to
muddy the waters of our civilisational truths.’
-Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs,
Government of India.
For the better part of seven decades after independence, the Nehruvian
idea of India held sway in India's polity, even if it was not always in
consonance with the views of Jawaharlal Nehru himself. Three key
features constituted the crux of the Nehruvian way: socialism, which
in practice devolved to corruption and stagnation; secularism, which
boxed citizens into group membership and diluted individual identity;
and non-alignment, which effectively placed India in the Communist
camp.
In the early ninet..