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Foreword by Sanjeev SanyalA clear look into India's political, social and economic historyunobstructed by decades of agenda-driven narratives that sought tomuddy the waters of our civilisational truths.'-Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs,Government of India.For the better part of seven decades after independence, the Nehruvianidea of India held sway in India's polity, even if it was not always inconsonance with the views of Jawaharlal Nehru himself. Three keyfeatures constituted the crux of the Nehruvian way: socialism, whichin practice devolved to corruption and stagnation; secularism, whichboxed citizens into group membership and diluted individual identity;and non-alignment, which effectively placed India in the Communistcamp.In the early nineties, India started a gradual withdrawal from this path.But it was only in 2019, with Narendra Modi's second successive win inthe general elections, that this philosophy is finally being replaced by aworldview that acknowledges India as an ancient civilisation, even if ayoung republic, and that sees citizens as equal for developmental andother purposes. A New Idea of India constructs and expounds on a newframework beyond the rough and tumble of partisan politics.Lucid in its laying out of ideas and policies while taking a novel position,this book is illuminated by years of research and the authors' first-handexperiences, as citizens, entrepreneurs and investors, of the vagariesand challenges of India.