The Moderate Era in Indian Politics


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This work presents a Dadabhai Naoroji Memorial Prize Fund lecture to the general public. ‘The Moderate Era in Indian Politics’ was delivered under the auspices of the Prize Fund by Mr B.R. Nanda on 17 March 1981. The blurred and distorted image of the Moderate Era is partly due to the conscious superiority and almost contempt with which each generation tends to judge its predecessor. To understand the aims, methods, achievements, and limitations of the leaders of the Moderate Era in India, this lecture sets them in the changing political and social context of the times in which their lot was cast.




The Moderate Era in Indian Politics


Book Description

The blurred and distorted image of the Moderate Era is partly due to the conscious superiority and almost contempt with which each generation tends to judge its predecessor. To understand the aims, methods, achievements, and limitations of the leaders of the Moderate Era in India, this lecture sets them in the changing political and social context of the times in which their lot was cast.







The Moderate Era in Indian Politics


Book Description

The blurred and distorted image of the Moderate Era is partly due to the conscious superiority and almost contempt with which each generation tends to judge its predecessor. To understand the aims, methods, achievements, and limitations of the leaders of the Moderate Era in India, this lecture sets them in the changing political and social context of the times in which their lot was cast.




Soft Power


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Joseph Nye coined the term "soft power" in the late 1980s. It is now used frequently—and often incorrectly—by political leaders, editorial writers, and academics around the world. So what is soft power? Soft power lies in the ability to attract and persuade. Whereas hard power—the ability to coerce—grows out of a country's military or economic might, soft power arises from the attractiveness of a country's culture, political ideals, and policies. Hard power remains crucial in a world of states trying to guard their independence and of non-state groups willing to turn to violence. It forms the core of the Bush administration's new national security strategy. But according to Nye, the neo-conservatives who advise the president are making a major miscalculation: They focus too heavily on using America's military power to force other nations to do our will, and they pay too little heed to our soft power. It is soft power that will help prevent terrorists from recruiting supporters from among the moderate majority. And it is soft power that will help us deal with critical global issues that require multilateral cooperation among states. That is why it is so essential that America better understands and applies our soft power. This book is our guide.




The Success of India's Democracy


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Leading scholars consider how democracy has taken root in India despite poverty, illiteracy and ethnic diversity.




The Emerging Democratic Majority


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ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND A WINNER OF THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY'S ANNUAL POLITICAL BOOK AWARD Political experts John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira convincingly use hard data -- demographic, geographic, economic, and political -- to forecast the dawn of a new progressive era. In the 1960s, Kevin Phillips, battling conventional wisdom, correctly foretold the dawn of a new conservative era. His book, The Emerging Republican Majority, became an indispensable guide for all those attempting to understand political change through the 1970s and 1980s. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, with the country in Republican hands, The Emerging Democratic Majority is the indispensable guide to this era. In five well-researched chapters and a new afterword covering the 2002 elections, Judis and Teixeira show how the most dynamic and fastest-growing areas of the country are cultivating a new wave of Democratic voters who embrace what the authors call "progressive centrism" and take umbrage at Republican demands to privatize social security, ban abortion, and cut back environmental regulations. As the GOP continues to be dominated by neoconservatives, the religious right, and corporate influence, this is an essential volume for all those discontented with their narrow agenda -- and a clarion call for a new political order.




Language and the Making of Modern India


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Explores the ways linguistic nationalism has enabled and deepened the reach of All-India nationalism. This title is also available as Open Access.




What Is Moderate Islam?


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Radical Islam is a major affliction of the contemporary world. Each year, radical Islamists carry out terrorist attacks that result in a massive death toll, almost all involving noncombatants and innocents. Estimates of how many Muslims could be considered followers of radical Islam vary widely, and there are few guides to help determine moderates versus radicals. Observers often sit at the extremes, either seeing all Muslims as open or closeted jihadis or recoiling from any attempt to link Islam with international terror. Both positions are overly simplistic, and the lack of rational principles to absolve the innocent and identify the accomplices of terror has led to governments and individuals mistakenly accepting jihadis as moderate. What is Moderate Islam? brings together an array of scholars—Muslims and non-Muslims—to provide this missing insight. This wide-ranging collection examines the relationship among Islam, civil society, and the state. The contributors—including both Muslims and non-Muslims—investigate how radical Islamists can be distinguished from moderate Muslims, analyze the potential for moderate Islamic governance, and challenge monolithic conceptions of Islam.




The Republic of India


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