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Tocqueville in India, par Jean Alphonse Bernard

In Democracy in America, Tocqueville proclaimed that equality of social class would eventually prevail everywhere. In The Old Regime and the French Revolution, he analysed the long and painful struggle between a centralising modern State and an old and complex society based on rank. His "Notes on India" written in the early 1840s revealed a penetrating understanding of Indian mores and customs in his time. What, then, if he went to India today to see for himself how the sub-continent is coping with its contradictions ?

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