Twilight prisoners : the rise of the Hindu right and the fall of India
(2024)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
954.053/DEB,S
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, [2024]
©2024
©2024
DESCRIPTION
217 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9798888900888, 9798888900888
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Traveling across India, interviewing Hindu zealots, armed insurgents, jailed dissidents, and politicians and thinkers from across the political spectrum, Siddhartha Deb reveals a country in which forces old and new have aligned to endanger democracy. The result is an absorbing--and disturbing--portrait. What's emerging in the world's largest democracy is nothing less than an fundamental dystopia, described here with a novelist's precise language and eye for detail