India: Liberalism vs. Nationalism

Issue Date July 1992
Volume 3
Issue 3
Page Numbers 147-53
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A review of Democracy and Discontent: India’s Growing Crisis of Governability, by Atul Kohli and The Politics of India Since Independence, by Paul Brass.

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