A New Idea Of India: The Civilizational Republic (Hb) by Harsh Madhusudan and Rajeev Mantri in Hardcover

For nearly seventy years after independence, the Nehruvian concept of India was dominant in the country's government, although it did not always align with the beliefs of Jawaharlal Nehru himself. The core principles of this approach were socialism, which often led to corruption and stagnation; secularism, which restricted individuals to group identity and weakened their personal identity; and non-alignment, which essentially aligned India with the Communist camp. In the early 1990s, India began to gradually veer away from this path. However, it was not until 2019, when Narendra Modi won a second consecutive victory in the general elections, that this ideology was fully replaced by a new worldview that recognizes India as an ancient civilization, despite being a young republic, and that regards all citizens as equal for developmental and other purposes. A New Idea of India presents and elaborates upon a new framework that goes beyond the chaos of partisan politics. With clear explanations of concepts and policies and a unique perspective