‘India`s politics needs impetus’: "Author and historian Ramachandra Guha said that India has been lucky to have a long, high-quality political tradition but more needs to be done to restore and rehabilitate it the current context.
Giving the fourth Penguin India lecture on ‘The Indian Political Tradition - And Those Who Made It’ based on his new book `Makers of Modern India`, Guha said that the tradition of political activism in the country has been continuous and has touched every important aspect of human tradition.
He said India is the world`s most 'unnatural nation and least likely democracy'. 'The political miracle owes itself to a remarkable set of men and women who, I call, Indian political tradition,' he said.
He said that Raja Rammohan Roy was a 'precocious pioneer, scholar and political reformer' who battled Hindu orthodoxy and understood the challenge posed to an ossified society by the Western thought.
He said that university education after 1857 proved crucibles of modernity and helped shape the thought of a generation of Indians."
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