Praful Bidwai interviews Perry Anderson for Outlook India: ‘Respect Gandhi If You Will, Don’t Sentimentalise Him’

The complete interview available here: http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?282832

… His latest book, The Indian Ideology, just published by the Three Essays Collective, is a scathing critique of the dominant celebratory discourse of the Idea of India, or the lionising of the democratic stability, multi-cultural unity and impartial secularity of the Indian state as a miracle. His three recent essays on the subject in the London Review of Books have already generated considerable debate. In an e-mail interview with columnist and writer Praful Bidwai, Anderson discusses his book at length.

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