Eduard Alan Bulut

Selected Essays on India Eduard Alan Bulut

The book is composed of three different essays about the state, political and cultural affairs of India. Primary resources are used as much as possible for the analysis and discussions in this book. The first essay is about Gandhi's first work, with which he went into politics. It was a manual for Swaraj, i.e. independence. I thought it would be interesting to discuss this work because this manual does not talk about a real, but imaginary world order. The second essay is about the relationship/problems between the Indian intellectuals and the early Christian missionaries during the colonisation period. I find this topic very interesting because India is a country which remained under the British rule for a long time. Despite that, the level of Christianity remained low. How did they do this? Their defence of Hinduism and Hindu doctrines is a part of this answer. The last part is about the politicisation of the scheduled castes, tribes and backward groups. I think this politicisation process and its contribution to the largest democracy in the world is important.