At The Crossroad : Gandhi Modi and India

At the Crossroad: Gandhi Modi and India is a book where I argue that Mahatma Gandhis vision neglected by the Congress was picked up by Narendra Modi and is being impelemted in India. It also has a series of articles on how we in India are at a crossroad as a nation and need to choose a new trajectory of our historical development. And it is in this crossroad where we as a nation pause think reflect and look at other alternatives. This book if read at a crossroad will give us ideas of new alternatives and will help us to understand the colonial underpinnings that we carried so far in our journey. As scholars leaders and policy planners we have to get to the root causes of our problems. This book presents a new view on those causalities.           Often for example it is assumed that there was just one paradigm of colonial rule but recent scholarships has shown the different forms in which the British ruled India. Centuries of conquest and colonial interpretation and re-interpretation of our history has thus knotted our minds. This book  is my humble attempt to untangle some of these knots. The book focuses on India especially on North East India and contains original research over several years in six chapters.  I realize that this book will create a great deal of controversy because it touches upon and challenges traditional literature. My book challenges the traditional knowledge on several areas and will hopefully generate debate.