Designed for undergraduate and graduate courses on Indian civilization and history, this text provides a sweeping look at the long and varied history of India and how this complex legacy has shaped, and is shaping, the nation's modern polity. It offers unique political-historical coverage of India from pre-history into the 21st century.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is currently trying to establish a between what many Chinese intellectuals, writers and artists in particular, consider as 'freedom of creation' and the Party's redefinition of the concept. This caused confusion among intellectuals and raised some fears that the Party is about to reverse its 'liberal' policies. Mao Zedong's concept of the 'red intellectual' is discussed and his and the party's attitudes towards the intellectuals, especially in 1957 and 1958 are critically assessed. Mao's attempts to demolish the inherent power of the so-called 'bourgeois' intellectuals during the Cultural Revolution. (DÜI-Sen)