Author: Ashish Talwar
Publisher: Frank Bros
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 237
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8171706746
Description
The book evolves a new and lucid approach to the ideology of the Congress, which has been presented as a theory of political thought, Congressism.
While there are numerous books on the history of the Indian National Congress, there is virtually no work on its ideology. A need for clear ideological elucidation has been accentuated due to the attempts by non-Congress political formations at redefining and obfuscating the tenets that the Congress has stood for. Deliberately, Secularism has been redefined as pseudo-secularism and any conception of a Welfare State or demands for poverty alleviation are dismissed as Marxism.
The book counters the attempts to dismiss the Congress as having no ideology and contends that those who do so are influenced from fear of exposure of the hollowness of their own ideologies.
Contents
Introduction
The Ideology of Congressism
Secularism
Nationalism and National Integration
Democracy
Economic Policy
Foreign Policy
Bibliography
Index