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  1. Enter the Second Republic?

    Will India remain the world's largest democracy? Meghnad Desai describes the changes needed to ensure it holds the title. Forty-seven years ago, on January 26 1950, India became a sovereign...

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  2. Imagining India

    Novelist Nayantara Sahgal reflects on the power of the word in creating India as a nation, 50 years after her uncle Jawaharlal Nehru's celebrated 'tryst with destiny' One cannot talk about India 50...

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  3. Quantifiers of a land hard to measure

    MAPPING AN EMPIRE:The Geographical Construction of British India 1765 - 1843. By Matthew H. Edney. University of Chicago Press, 458pp, Pounds .95. ISBN 0 226 18487 0. Throughout the centuries India...

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  4. States of the nation

    INDIAN DEVELOPMENT: Selected Regional perspectives. Edited by Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen. Clarendon Press Oxford, 420pp, Pounds 40.00. ISBN 0 19 829204 X. Africanists rightly deride statements...

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  5. His brilliant career

    CHARLES CORREA. Charles Correa with an essay by Kenneth Frampton. Thames and Hudson 1pp, Pounds 40.00. ISBN 0 500 09268 0. One of the less well-known aspects of Prince Charles's famous "carbuncle"...

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  6. Proconsuls who ruled the jewel

    VICEROY: Curzon to Mountbatten. By Hugh Tinker. Oxford University Press, 266pp, Pounds 11.99. ISBN 0 19 577698 4. What Hugh Tinker calls "a kind of personal retrospect, completed when a lifetime of...

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  9. Speaking Volumes: Isaiah Berlin's Four Essays on Liberty

    The course of my intellectual life has been dominated by the attempt to come to terms with the Christianity I imbibed as a child. As an undergraduate at Oxford, where I was put off by the vigorously...

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