Looking Back : India in the Twentieth Century

Author: N N VohraSabyasachi Bhattacharya/Editor: N N Vohra, Sabyasachi BhattacharyaPublisher: National Book TrustYear: 2002Language: EnglishPages: 368ISBN/UPC (if available): 8123737505 DescriptionThis collection of essays crosses many boundaries, the boundary between the historical and contemporary. This collection also arranges an encounter between authors who belong to two sets. Another major feature is the interplay between memory and history. From the vantage point of the cusp of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the authors invited to contribute to this volume look back upon India in the last century and provide a basis for the evaluation of that historical experience. The trajectory we have traversed in the last hundred years or so also reflects on the future towards which we are heading. The authors include many who had, in the last few decades, an important role, either in shaping as active participants the course of developments they write about, or in analyzing tho