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India After Gandhi:

The History of the World's Largest Democracy
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HarperCollins, Aug 12, 2008 - History - 944 pages

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.

  

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User Review  - Venkateswaran - Goodreads

A voluminous book that surprisingly is a great page turner. A book whose stated objective was to unravel the reason that holds India against all odds, gives a huge focus on the odds but does not ... Read full review

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User Review  - Subhrajit Das - Goodreads

Do you really think that history of India has not been documented post independence? This is the chief premise with which historian Ramachandra Guha documents history of India post 1947 to 2005 ... Read full review

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Contents

Unnatural Nation
1
PICKING UP THE PIECES
17
Freedom and Parricide
19
The Logic of Division
41
Apples in the Basket
51
A Valley Bloody and Beautiful
74
Refugees and the Republic
97
Ideas of India
115
Minding the Minorities
365
THE RISE OF POPULISM
387
Leftward Turns
417
The Elixir of Victory
445
The Rivals
466
Autumn of the Matriarch
491
Life Without the Congress
519
Democracy in Disarray
542

NEHRUS INDIA
135
The Biggest Gamble in History
137
Home and the World
160
Redrawing the Map
189
The Conquest of Nature
209
The Law and the Prophets
233
Securing Kashmir
249
Tribal Trouble
267
The Southern Challenge
287
The Experience of Defeat
306
Peace in Our Time
342
This Son Also Rises
569
Rights
597
Riots
624
Rulers
651
Riches
682
A Peoples Entertainments
709
Why India Survives
733
Acknowledgements
761
Index
859
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About the author (2008)

Ramachandra Guha has taught at the University of Oslo, Stanford, Yale, and the Indian Institute of Science. His books and essays have been translated into more than twenty languages, and his prizes include the UK Cricket Society's Literary Award and the Leopold-Hidy Prize of the American Society of Environmental History.

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