But Singh complicated the story. In the same speech, he argued that independent India had inherited not only the economic consequences of colonialism but also institutions and political ideas that continued to shape the republic.
A new book examines the popular 20th-century perceptions as documented in Hindi novels of four authors who were also political activists, and interprets their retellings of history through the radical lens of literary representations
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