Evolution of a Leadership
Ajay K Mehra
VAJPAYEE: THE ASCENT OF THE HINDU RIGHT—1924-1977 by By Abhishek Choudhary Picador India, New Delhi, 2023, 401 pp., INR 899.00
December 2023, volume 47, No 12

There are very few political leaders in India whose initiation and evolution in the country’s political life would lead to an understanding not merely of the leader, or even of leadership conceptually that remains a barren field in Indian social sciences, but realization of a new competitive ideological stream that challenged the ideological framework of politics evolving with the freedom movement. Atal Bihari Vajpayee,

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