Gil Halsted and Amitabh Pal in Madison talk to Sukumar Muralidaran in India about his new book, The Nation and Its Citizens, Tales of Bondage and Belonging.
They discuss nationhood – the idea of India – at independence and now; secularism in India, the U.S. and elsewhere and how it varies by context; the Indian constitution as conceived and in practice; the current status of Jammu and Kashmir, inequality, populism, the rule of the market and more.
As India celebrates 75 years of Independence, author Sukumar Muralidharan takes the readers on a journey into how the sense of fellow-feeling and mutual dependence of the nation are consolidated, and under what circumstances these could fray.
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