The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy by Rahul Bhatia Har

Description: The New India by Rahul Bhatia The New India is the unforgettable account of the struggle between modern forces and ancient ideas to shape the young countrys destiny. It reveals a picture of a nation on the precipice of dramatic change. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The New India is the unforgettable account of the struggle between modern forces and ancient ideas to shape the young countrys destiny. It reveals a picture of a nation on the precipice of dramatic change.Remarkable... fascinating... brilliant GuardianBased on six years of detailed research and on-the-ground reporting, the book builds - authoritatively, vividly, indelibly - to become the story of post-colonial India. Using hundreds of interviews, and letters, diary entries, Partition-era police reports, and an astonishing range of sources, Bhatia shows how history plays a recurring role in the present: in politics, in the minds of citizens, in notions of justice and corruption. Bhatia examines the connections between the Delhi riots of 2020 and the emergence of nineteenth-century revolutionary secret societies, the rise of Hindu nationalism, whose early advocates drew lessons from Hitler and Mussolini, the political use of misinformation and religious targeting, and the Hindu fundamentalist ideology that sparked the creation of the worlds largest biometric project. As Bhatia shows, the evolution of this citizen database, in the hands of the BJP, now threatens to deny vast numbers of Indias 200 million Muslims their Indian citizenship. Electorates in democracies used to choose their government. Now, in India, the government is choosing its electorate.India has rarely been seen as in The New India, a monumental work of narrative reportage that illuminates the ways in which a supremacist ideology remade the country over decades, resulting in the prodigious rise of Narendra Modi, and forcing many to ask what they truly understood about their neighbours and themselves. Author Biography Rahul Bhatia is an award-winning Indian writer and journalist based in Mumbai, whose work has been published in the New Yorker, Guardian Long Reads, the New York Times, Foreign Policy, Quartz, GQ India and the Wall Street Journal. His profiles and cultural features for The Caravan magazine in India have been anthologised, and his technology investigations are studied at Stanford and other universities. He was on the Reuters global investigations team, where he focused on religion, business, and technology in India under Narendra Modi. He mentors writers and journalists as part of the "South Asia Speaks" collective, and was a co-founder of the Peepli Project, a journalism nonprofit. A former art director, Rahul Bhatia graduated in communication design from Pratt Institute, New York. He tweets @rahulabhatia, where he has 14,000 followers. Review This meticulously researched book is an unusual account of the dismantling of democracy in the worlds most populous country. It is a portrait of how medieval religious sectarianism, modern majoritarianism, deepening poverty, all lashed together by the worlds most ambitious data gathering project is driving India towards an alarming, unique model of authoritarianism. A serious subject, seriously addressed * Arundhati Roy *Rahul Bhatias The New India: The Unmaking of The Worlds Largest Democracy is an account of Hindu fascism from the inside, one with astounding resonances across all democracies currently threatened by fascism. It is one of the essential books for anyone interested in preserving democracy today * Jason Stanley, author of How Propaganda Works *Really important, superbly researched, very well written * Peter Oborne, author of The Assault on Truth *The most important book on India for many years * James Crabtree, author of Billionaire Raj *The New India is a tour de force, and it will be one of the defining books of the Modi era. Rahul Bhatias astonishingly granular and deeply empathetic reporting reveals an India well on its way to being an authoritarian dystopia * Samanth Subramanian *An important, timely and powerful account of India now. Rahul Bhatias book is both rigorously reported and very readable. Highly recommended * Jason Burke *This is the stuff of black comedy. Worse, it is a testament to the bigoted backwater that the new India is becoming... Bhatia gives us some brilliant on-the-ground reportage -- Pratinav Anil * The Times *Bhatias remarkable book is an absorbing account of Indias transformation from the worlds largest democracy to something more like the worlds most populous country that regularly holds elections... Bhatia captures the whole phenomenon brilliantly, painting a gloomy picture of what India has become * Guardian *A New India is a reminder that the country never healed from the numerous times it was invaded * Irish Independent *Bhatias book combines reporting, history and polemic... his account of the precursors to Hindu nationalism, reaching back to a Hindu reformist movement of the 19th century, is fascinating. So is his description of an early, unsuccessful attempt to create an identity system * The Economist *Reportage is the great strength of Rahul Bhatias book * Telegraph *A beautiful writing style * Irish Times *Both a chronicle and a cautionary tale: an illustration of how easily societies can be poisoned * Washington Monthly *A disturbing chronicle of a country where the push to modernize has been accompanied by an assault on democratic institutions, along with surging discrimination and intolerance * New York Times *This meticulously researched book is an unusual account of the dismantling of democracy in the worlds most populous country. It is a portrait of how medieval religious sectarianism, modern majoritarianism, deepening poverty, all lashed together by the worlds most ambitious data gathering project is driving India towards an alarming, unique model of authoritarianism. A serious subject, seriously addressed * Arundhati Roy *Rahul Bhatias The New India: The Unmaking of The Worlds Largest Democracy is an account of Hindu fascism from the inside, one with astounding resonances across all democracies currently threatened by fascism. It is one of the essential books for anyone interested in preserving democracy today * Jason Stanley, author of How Propaganda Works *Really important, superbly researched, very well written * Peter Oborne, author of The Assault on Truth *The most important book on India for many years * James Crabtree, author of Billionaire Raj *The New India is a tour de force, and it will be one of the defining books of the Modi era. Rahul Bhatias astonishingly granular and deeply empathetic reporting reveals an India well on its way to being an authoritarian dystopia * Samanth Subramanian *An important, timely and powerful account of India now. Rahul Bhatias book is both rigorously reported and very readable. Highly recommended * Jason Burke *This is the stuff of black comedy. Worse, it is a testament to the bigoted backwater that the new India is becoming... Bhatia gives us some brilliant on-the-ground reportage -- Pratinav Anil * The Times *Bhatias remarkable book is an absorbing account of Indias transformation from the worlds largest democracy to something more like the worlds most populous country that regularly holds elections... Bhatia captures the whole phenomenon brilliantly, painting a gloomy picture of what India has become * Guardian *A New India is a reminder that the country never healed from the numerous times it was invaded * Irish Independent *Bhatias book combines reporting, history and polemic... his account of the precursors to Hindu nationalism, reaching back to a Hindu reformist movement of the 19th century, is fascinating. So is his description of an early, unsuccessful attempt to create an identity system * The Economist *Reportage is the great strength of Rahul Bhatias book * Telegraph *A beautiful writing style * Irish Times *Both a chronicle and a cautionary tale: an illustration of how easily societies can be poisoned * Washington Monthly *A disturbing chronicle of a country where the push to modernize has been accompanied by an assault on democratic institutions, along with surging discrimination and intolerance * New York Times * Details ISBN1408717883 Author Rahul Bhatia Year 2024 ISBN-10 1408717883 ISBN-13 9781408717882 Format Hardcover Imprint Abacus Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Publisher Little, Brown Book Group Publication Date 2024-08-08 UK Release Date 2024-08-08 Subtitle The Unmaking of the Worlds Largest Democracy Audience General Pages 448 NZ Release Date 2024-11-11 AU Release Date 2024-11-11 DEWEY 320.454 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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