Far too many Indian nationalists regard their country’s present-day bid for global greatness as a rightful reversion to ancient type, a vindication of what Aparna Pande calls a “continuous civilization” that began in the Indus Valley in 3300 B.C. Some would even take issue with the title of Ms. Pande’s book, “Making India Great,” scolding her for her failure to round it off with that restorative word, “Again.”Yet the India-born Ms. Pande, a senior researcher at the Hudson Institute in Washington, has little patience with...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 06, 2020 23:03 UTC