Book review | The meaning of india

The meaning of India advances the view that India is not just a geographical entity, or even a civilizational state, Bhārat, above all, is a chariot leading the world towards truth. Shri Raja Rao's book helps reader to understand the deeper significance of India. Contemporary India is in midst of a great churn over identity of India and the winning side will leave imprints of it's ideology on generations to come, while we are seeing fall of nehruvian concesus it's time to explore new ideas of India and what better than shri Raja Rao's the meaning of India is to base foundations of our 'second republic' of india. Rethinking nationalism Nationalism has been a very controversial term and using it always raised eyebrows in post world war 2 europe, rightly so. Also, one needs to acknowledge that definitions change with place and time and in case of post- colonial societies like india and Africa, it has different meanings, that of consolidating and asser...