Making Of India

The book explores at length the immense changes that have shaped the making of modern India during the last century-and-a-half, as also the political, social and economic achievements of independent India. It highlights, too, the complex challenges of state and nation building that India faces in the new millennium. The author suggests that behind India's troubled image a silent evolutionary process is at work that is strengthening Indian democracy by forcing political parties to discard foreign paradigms of secularism, facilitating the exposure of corruption, releasing the economy from the thralldom of bureaucracy, and encouraging the emergence of a civil society.