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The greater game : India's race with destiny and China /

The Greater Game offers a fresh look at India, showing it to be a dramatically changing democracy after decades of domination by the Nehru-Gandhi family dynasty and a newly emerging strategic ally of the United States. David Van Praagh argues that Hindu nationalists, the country's new paramount...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Van Praagh, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2003]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A tryst with more than destiny
  • India beyond midnight
  • "Terrorism is terrorism"
  • Caste and crass
  • Dung and decency
  • The Nehrus
  • Winning at any cost
  • The soul of a nation
  • Nearly going communist
  • Presuming too much
  • Back to the past
  • The only option
  • A historic turning point
  • Finally the future beckons
  • Violence, alignment, and the bomb
  • Debacle in the High Himalayas
  • Talking peace and waging war
  • Between Dragon and Serpent
  • An unlikely expression of hope
  • Vale of death
  • Testing and fighting
  • No Mahatma to wait for.