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A political treatise examining India's status as a secular democracy, India - The Siege Within explains how India's policies have worked and also how they have failed. Summary of the Book The book offers a clear depiction of India of the present day, studying what unity means to India and how it has worked. Beginning with the moment of freedom from British rule, the book examines India's decisions along the way, decisions which affected the nation from within. In these pages one finds the account of Indira Gandhi's assassination, the effects of the Partition and Operation Blue Star. The book puts forth the author's views that threats to India are within, and only from the inside can we counter them. About M.J. Akbar Mobashar Jawed Akbar  is an Indian journalist and author. He is known as the founder of prominent newspapers such as The Sunday Guardian, The Asian Age and as the author of Nehru: The Making of India, Kashmir: Behind the Vale and Riot After Riot.