India after Gandhi The History of the World's Largest Democracy

Name: India after Gandhi The History of the World's Largest Democracy
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ISBN: 9780060958589

ISBN-10: 0060958588

ISBN-13: 9780060958589

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Authors: Ramachandra Guha

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Amagisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi is a breathtaking chronicle of the brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation and the extraordinary factors that have held it together. An intricately researched and elegantly written epic history peopled with larger-than-life characters, it is the work of a major scholar at the peak of his abilities.

Book details

List price: $19.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 8/12/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 944
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.89" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English



A Note on Place Names


Cast of Principal Characters


Prologue: Unnatural Nation



Picking up the Pieces



Freedom and Parricide



The Logic of Division



Apples in the Basket



A Valley Bloody and Beautiful



Refugees and the Republic



Ideas of India



Nehru's India



The Biggest Gamble in History



Home and the World



Redrawing the Map



The Conquest of Nature



The Law and the Prophets



Securing Kashmir



Tribal Trouble



Shaking the Centre



The Southern Challenge



The Experience of Defeat



Peace in Our Time



Minding the Minorities



The Rise of Populism



War and Succession



Leftward Turns



The Elixir of Victory



The Rivals



Autumn of the Matriarch



Life Without the Congress



Democracy in Disarray



This Son Also Rises



A History of Events



Rights



Riots



Rulers



Riches



A People's Entertainments


Epilogue: Why India Survives


Acknowledgements


Notes


Index