India Waits

by Jan Myrdal and Gun Kessle

Jan Myrdal, the son of Nobel Laureates Gunnar and Alva Myrdal, has become widely regarded as Sweden's most important writer and intellectual, with a national importance possible only in a country like Sweden. When he had a heart attack a few years ago, the largest daily newspaper, a sensational tabloid, Expressen, had its front page completely filled with a headline about it. On his 60th birthday cabinet ministers, labor leaders, religious leaders...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0941702073
• ISBN13: 9780941702072
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

I cherish this book

I have a tattered copy of this book which I found in a second hand bookstall in Bangalore many years back. I have read this book many times over and I do not lend it to anyone fearing that it may get lost! This is a book that I absolutely cherish. First of all I like the style. Is this book a travelogue? Is it a history of India or is it a book on the political economics of India? It is all of this. I **like** the confused approach since it suits the confused aura of a country like India. This book attempts an interpretation of Indian history, trying to find out a meaning in its progress. Maybe we do not agree that India is actually waiting for a Marxist revolution - but I think that is beside the point. But a suspension of disbelief would teach the reader helluva lot concering the proper way to evaluate and view this very large, mystifying and onfused country.