In March 1998, India broke a quarter-century's silence when it detonated a series of nuclear devices in the Rajasthan desert. Having announced it possessed the credentials for membership in the nuclear club in 1974, India quickly disavowed any desire to join, pledging not to develop its capability further. The Pokhran explosions revealed that promise to have been broken. The principal beneficiary of its breaking was a right-wing government seeking to shore up its shaky base with commitment to the Hindu bomb. While most in the West were taken unawares by this sudden bellicosity in the land of Gandhi, more scrupulous observers on the Indian scene insisted it had a clear history. In this, his first book since the hotly debated In Theory, Aijaz Ahmad untangles many of the intertwined threads of historical and political traditions in a still-too-poorly-understood region of the world.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Verso Books
ISBN-13
9781859843581
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94666140
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Political Science
Author
Aijaz Ahmad
Publication Name
Lineages of the Present: Ideology and Politics in Contemporary South Asia