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The Rise of the BJP
- The Making of the World's Largest Political Party
- Narrated by: Dipti Singh
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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Summary
The Bharatiya Janata Party is an idea that was seeded into the minds of nationalist Jana Sangh leaders when they began to envision India after Independence. Much like the very core the freedom struggle was built on, they saw India as a demographically, culturally and historically cohesive and unified nation—as Bharat.
In this book, senior BJP leader and cabinet minister Bhupender Yadav and leading economist Ila Patnaik come together to trace the BJP's journey from its humble roots, through ups and downs and to eventually getting 303 seats in Lok Sabha in 2019 and becoming the world's largest political party. While focusing on the larger economics and political story, the book encapsulates many smaller, yet hugely significant stories of individuals and incidents, which brought the BJP to where it stands now.
For the first time ever, The Rise of the BJP, tells us the inside story of how one of the most powerful political parties makes decisions, implements ideas and executes policy. Meticulously researched and immensely compelling, the book shows us how the BJP fought competing ideologies, political assaults and catapulted to the centre stage of national politics.
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- Dennis Sommers
- 12-07-23
A. Boring political tract
It took a while to realise that this is in the nature of proclamation rather than history, and that’s because the early chapters are quite unexceptionable to a reader who simply wants to know how this phenomenon came about.
There is a survey of Indian history since independence other than ‘Midnight’ children’ in Audible, but it does GO ON!!! However one-sided, the book gives us the early years in good order and later it goes into the mechanics of how much more effectively the grass roots were put to use than were the seedy remains of Congress.
What is made clear at the start is the distinction among Hinduism as a religion/philosophy and Hindustan the cultural entity when polluted with power politics, though, nsmaturally that is not how the tract states its ‘raison d’etre.’
There is a PDF of what must be the most stultifying boringness that gives figures for the results of virtually every state and national election since the war, which is commendable for those who are truly interested, but all you frequently thecreader raises her voice and commands the listener to consult it, and for a reader merely searching for an outline history, there are many unexplained references that just create irritation.
If there were a shorter, more balanced and clearer account than this one don’t hesitate to pass this one over.
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