Ramachandra Guha's collection of essays are a valuable and readable source of information but whether they are relevant is an open question
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DEMOCRATS AND DISSENTERS Author: Ramachandra Guha Publisher: Penguin Random House Pages: 352 Price: Rs 699 Plato rejected Athenian democracy on the grounds that it encouraged anarchy. Nietzsche disapproved of democracy as "Christianity's heir". But to adapt King Edward VII's famous comment on socialists, we are all democrats nowadays. India's other national myth - of being a secular republic where caste and creed are subsumed in the desi equivalent of Cicero's Civis romanus sum, I am a Roman citizen, - is no longer even whispered. But woe betide anyone who ...
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