Sensex Kshetriya Dalon Ka (Hindi Edition)

This book by renowned journalist Aku Srivastava comprehensively examines the ups and downs of regional parties, coupled with the contradictions and conflicts between the central and state governments in independent Indias political history. These contradictions first emerged in the 1970s, when local political aspirations in seven or eight states formed their own coalition governments, offering localist alternatives to the centralist Congress party policies.Linguistic and local cultural identities enabled this change. Non-Congress parties and local aspirations formed governments at the center twice. This tendency toward decentralization has become even stronger in the era of globalization. Perhaps this is why, even now that the BJP has replaced Congresss centralism, many localist identities continue to clash with the BJPs centralism.Jammu and Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Bengal, Odisha, and Kerala have long been challenging centralism. Maharashtra, Punjab, and Delhi are also following suit. Despite being out of power, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh continue to do so. Local parties, etc., continue to clash with centrism.Aku Srivastava delves deeply into the various dimensions of this fundamental contradiction of Indian politics and explains that this contradiction is the intrinsic contradiction of our contemporary politics, which, while apparently a curse for democracy, indirectly seems to be the very thing that keeps democracy alive.In my view, this book is a must-read for understanding the pulse of contemporary and future politics. --Sudhish Pachauri