Achin Vanaik is a writer and social activist, a former professor at the University of Delhi and Delhi-based Fellow of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam.
A courageous attempt to reset sights ... he has ably contested anti-secularist and subalternist indigenisms. Romila Thapar No country in the world has been the subject of such mystification as India, as much from within the country as from without. At once a contribution to the campaign against racism as an intervention in theories of politics and culture, Achin Vanaik's study is a powerful counter to essentialising adeologies. It provides a lucidly rational corrective to the layers of anti-modernism under which the subcontinent has too long been submerged. Fred Halliday