a corner of a foreign field by ramachandra guha

He has previously taught at Stanford University, the Indian Institute of Science, and the London School of Economics. Ramachandra Guha is a historian and biographer who is currently Distinguished University Professor at Krea University. The consequences for economic prosperity and social harmony shall also be investigated. The lecture will examine how these cults have undermined institutions such as the press, the civil service, the judiciary, and the political party. In its seventy-five-year history, India has known two major cults of personality, that of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in the 1970s and that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the present. While comparative in nature, it will focus especially on India, which has long been upheld as the world’s largest democracy and is soon to be the most populous nation in the world. This lecture will examine the consequences of democratic functioning of the centralization of power and authority in a single individual. However, in recent decades such cults have arisen in democratic or partially democratic regimes too, in countries such as Hungary, Turkey, and even the United States. Personality cults have been characteristic of totalitarian regimes of the left and right, as for example Mussolini’s Italy, Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, and Mao’s China. Luce Hall, Rm 202, 34 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven, CT

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A corner of a foreign field by ramachandra guha