Tipping Point: A Short Political History of India

The book traces the history of political forces in modern India, defining left, right, and far-right categories and discussing their movements towards left or right from the balance of socio-political forces. It recalls historical facts, uses chronological order, and highlights leaders' names, political parties, world views, and ideas of nation and social groups. It also looks at periods like the 1920s-30s and 1970s-80s when there were significant movements and consolidation of socio-political forces to the right and far right.

Format: Hardback
Length: 424 pages
Publication date: 11 October 2023
Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors

Nehru, a French journalist, once asked him what had been the most difficult part of his experience at the helm. He replied, "Making a just society using just means. He further added, "Making a secular republic in a religious country. Both these projects appear endangered today. In the circumstance that we find ourselves today, this book sketches the history of political forces in modern India. It begins defining these political categories of left, right, and far-right with the usual reference to the French Revolution (for want of an indigenous equivalent), and discusses the movement of forces towards the left or towards the right from the balance of socio-political forces or status quo at a point of time in India. It recalls historical facts, uses chronological order for clarity, and leaders' names and political parties, their world view, and ideas of nation, social groups they represented, and their movements. It progresses by reopening only a few windows to modern Indian history and looks at periods like the 1920-30s and 1970s-80s, when there were significant movements and consolidation of socio-political forces to the right and far right.

Weight: 644g
Dimension: 148 x 225 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789394262430