Rishi Raj, reviewing for the
Financial Express, called the book a "timely book". According to Raj, in India's
left liberal dominated discourse, BJP and
Hindutva politics have been given distaste in intellectual and academic circles. Besides tracking the rise and success of Hindutva politics, the book also examines its faultlines. Raj praised the essays selected by Dasgupta but expected the author's own analysis on its relevance in today's times. In the end of review, Raj suggests to give the book to liberal historian
Ramachandra Guha when he rues about absence of India's conservative intellectuals. Ravish Tiwari, writing for
The Indian Express, observed that the book teases out different strands of Hindu cultural nationalist belief. According to him, the book's introductory chapters form the context of the book but specific context is lacking on why the essays were chosen. For
The Week, Vijaya Pushkarna wrote that book is an attempt to identify some of the ideas, attitudes and beliefs of
conservatism in India. "Anecdotes and stories in the book," wrote Pushkarna, "are interesting to read." She observed that Dasgupta's chapters in the book are more about
Narendra Modi and his contributions to economic intellect and ideas for the
BJP. == References ==