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Believer's Dilemma : (Record no. 213771)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20250825174235.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789361137761 (Hbk) |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 324.254 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Choudhary, Abhishek |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Believer's Dilemma : |
| Remainder of title | Vajpayee and the hindu right's path to puwer (1977 - 2018) / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Abhishek Choudhary |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New delhi |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Pan macmillan Publishein India |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xviii, 453 pages |
| Dimensions | 24 cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price amount | Rs. 999.00 |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Preface : Memorabilia and misremembering - <br/>Part I : Ruins of idealism (1977-85) -<br/>Part II : A doublethinker's guide to comparative politics (1985-96) -<br/>Part III : Finding the centre (1996 - 2004) -<br/>Part IV : In the evening of life (2004-18)<br/>Notes -<br/>Acknowledgements -<br/>Image Credits -<br/>Index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Believer’s Dilemma concludes Abhishek Choudhary’s landmark two-part study of Atal Behari Vajpayee (1924–2018), the RSS propagandist who established himself as an imaginative moderate, drawing the Hindu Right from the fringes to displace Congress as the natural party of power.<br/>This magisterial second volume combines new archival documents with revealing interviews to present an unsentimental history of India’s ongoing political moment, beginning with the short-lived Janata coalition and the Vajpayee–Morarji Desai tussle to steer foreign policy; Mrs Gandhi’s ad-hocism in Assam, Punjab and Kashmir; Rajiv’s cynical turn toward the Hindu vote; Vajpayee’s failure to secularize the newborn BJP; the Sangh Parivar’s meticulous plan to raze the Babri, and much more. Choudhary traces these machinations of the previous half-century to cast fresh light on major events from Vajpayee’s term in office (1998–2004), including his desperation to conduct nuclear tests; his cold pragmatism and heartbreak in negotiating with Pakistan and China; his wide range of emotional strengths, which allowed him to manage an unwieldy thirteen-party coalition and turn India into a multi-party democracy; his role in propping India up as a potential superpower and embedding capitalist aspiration into its socio-political imagination.<br/>Mapping the evolution of the Sangh Parivar, this book reveals a deeper pattern in Vajpayee’s character: his reflexive loyalty to his ideological family in moments of crisis – be it the 1983 Assam riots, the 1992 Babri aftermath, the 2002 Gujarat pogrom, or his tragic last public appearance in 2008, when the stroke-battered patriarch voted against the Indo-US nuclear deal he had earlier helped seed.<br/>A decade in the making, Believer’s Dilemma is an original and psychologically insightful take on the Hindu Right and its first prime minister. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Political Science |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | The political process |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | BOOKs |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Materials specified (bound volume or other part) | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type | Public note | Checked out | Date last checked out |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | HB | National Law School | National Law School | General Stacks | 25.08.2025 | Purchased - Amazon.in | 999.00 | 324.254 CHO - I | 40353 | 25.08.2025 | 25.08.2025 | BOOKs | Recommended by Prof. Dr. Arun K Thiruvengadam | |||||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | HB | National Law School | National Law School | General Stacks | 25.08.2025 | Purchased - Amazon.in | 999.00 | 1 | 324.254 CHO - II | 40354 | 05.11.2025 | 25.08.2025 | BOOKs | Recommended by Mr. Mario da Penha | 03.02.2026 | 05.11.2025 |
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