The Great Lokpal Debate of 2011 is something that ought to go down in Indian history. The debate was centred around two primary participants: Former professor and India’s most educated prime minister, Manmohan Singh, and Anna Hazare, the ex-army jawan, who had quickly become the people’s hero having single-handedly inspired the country to care about current events. Within a year of assuming his second term in office, Singh was bogged down by conspiracies and was suspected of having been complicit in the series of scams unearthed around this time. In contrast, Hazare was a man who exuded simplicity, and appeared to be everything the prime minister was not. What happens when such polar opposites are pitted against each other?
Read as Ramachandra Guha investigates how it all started and give a perspective of this conflict.
Imprint: Allen Lane
Published: Sep/2013
Length : Pages
MRP : ₹15.00
An Indian historian whose research interests include the vast realms of social, political, contemporary, environmental and cricket history, Ramachandra Guha is one of the most important writers of the history of modern India. Since you’re here, you are either a reader of his texts, an admirer of his work or know him for his political […]
