FRENCH WRITINGS ON INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA
"Tocqueville was, of course, a famous world traveler. Though, like Marx, he never visited India, also like Marx this did not deter him from writing about it with remarkable insight. Jean Alphonse Bernard has, of course, visited India and imagined what Tocqueville would have perceived had he done so. He has, in this innovative way, cast a fresh light on both the fantasies about and the realities of contemporary Indian political life." Paul Brass
Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Relations, University of Washington, Seattle