Ramachandra Guha’s talk at Manthan, No. 197, is based on, and around, his new book 'Democrats & Dissenters'.
Democrats and Dissenters is a work of rigorous scholarship on topics of compelling contemporary interest, written with elegance and wit. The book covers a wide range of themes: from the varying national projects of India’s neighbours to political debates within the country itself, from the responsibilities of writers to the complex relationship between democracy and violence. It has critical assessments of the work of Amartya Sen and Eric Hobsbawm, and essays on the tragic predicament of tribals in India-who are, as Guha demonstrates, far worse off than Dalits or Muslims, yet get a fraction of the attention-as well as on the peculiar absence of a tradition of conservative intellectuals in India.
Each essay takes up an important topic or an influential intellectual as a window to explore major political and cultural debates in India and the world. Thus, one essay compares India’s ‘Kashmir problem’ with Sri Lanka’s ‘Tamil problem’; another analyses the relationship between religion and politics in India and Pakistan. Several of these are being published for the first time; others have been extensively revised and updated.
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