Jawaharlal Nehru in our past, present and future
- Social Scientist
- 32(5-6), May-Jun, 2024: p.3-22
The threat to Indian democracy posed by communalism, or by ‘communal fascism,’ as Amartya Sen, perhaps first, described it, is now perceived globally. Michelguglielmo Torri, arguably the foremost Italian, scholar on India, has outlined the raped growth in recent years of the forces trying to transform India’s scalar democracy into a Hindu sate (Rashtra) and the repressive authoritarian manner in which it is being done, leading to a situation where he says India can no longer be called a full democracy. – Reproduced
Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Democracy, Communalism, Communal Fascism, Hindu Rashtra, Michelguglielmo Torri, Democratic Decline, Authoritarianism, Secularism, Political Transformation, Global Perception, Amartya Sen, Democratic Values