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India : the most dangerous decades

Contents

I. The Politics of National Survival 3

II. Past and Future 12
The Ganges and its Dependencies 17
The Deccan - Fact and Memory 27
Eden in South India 37
Bhakti and the Regional Languages 48

III. The New Regional Elites 55
The Legacy of English 56
What Language for Education ? 60
What Language for Leadership? 71
The New Regional Elites 78

IV. The New Caste Lobbies 96
Caste and Region 98
Behind the Banner of Lanugage 105
The Ubiquitous Marwari 114
The Brahman and the Bania 122
New Claims to Power 132

V. Indian Communism : The Grand Strategy 137
The Soviet Example 138
How Many Indias ? 146
Marwari Whipping Boy 158
A Respite for Nehru 169

VI. Indian Communism : Where Strategy Succeeded 178
'A BUNCH OF BRAHMAN BOYS' 180
Tamilnad 182
Maharashtra 190
Kerala 193
The Pattern of Success 199

KULAKS IN ANDHRA : A CASE STUDY 204
'Kulak Pettamdars' 207
The Role of Landless Labor 213
The 1946 Elections 217
'Telugu Motherland' 220
The 1951 Elections 226
The 1955 Elections 237

VII. The Stresses of Indian Politics 246
THE INDISCIPLINE OF INDIAN COMMUNISM 246
The Loyalties of a Communist 249
Multi-Lingual Revolutionists 254
The Hindi Controversy 258
Proletarian 'Internationalism' 264
Caste and Class 269

THE CONGRESS : STRENGHTS AND STRAINS 273
The Hinterlands Win 274
Hindi and the South 278
Andhra-Pandora's Box 284
The Tartar and the Chinese 287
A National Party System? 291

WILL THE UNION SURVIVE? 297
The Constitutional Issue 298
The Imbalance of the Union 303
Totalitarian Equilibrium ? 308
'God Speaks in Five' 314

VIII. The Most Dangerous Decades 319
After the 'Tall Leaders' 319
India, China and the West 333

Maps 17

Index 341