BOOK REVIEW: K.C. Agarwal, Shaping India of Our Dreams (Knowledge Books Inc., New Delhi, 2003). Pp.xviii+402. Price: Rs.690

Abstract

Understanding and comprehending Indian polity has always been an endless intellectual exercise both for academia and journalists. Political concerns for both the creeds have always been there in one form or the other, and a minute analysis of the same in the writings of various political philosophers and authors on Indian polity reveals that they have not been any different. Thus, during different phases, even though the society and polity has changed radically, the political and social concerns have remained the same. As also they have remained divided into two schools: one of skeptics and the other of optimists. However, what is important is that whether such expressed political concerns have been able to guide the policy planners in constructive and positive directions?