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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.

About the Author

Ashutosh Varshney is Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences, and professor of political science at Brown University.

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