India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest DemocracyRamachandra Guha’s India after Gandhi is a magisterial account of the pains, struggles, humiliations and glories of the world’s largest and least likely democracy. A riveting chronicle of the often brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation, and of the extraordinary individuals and institutions who held it together, it established itself as a classic when it was first published in 2007. |
Contents
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A Valley Bloody and Beautiful | lviii |
Refugees and the Republic | v |
Minding the Minorities | xi |
PART FOUR THE RISE OF POPULISM | xxx |
War and Succession | i |
Leftward Turns | xvi |
The Elixir of Victory | xvi |
The Rivals | xi |
Autumn of the Matriarch | iii |
Life Without the Congress | v |
Ideas of India | ii |
PART TWO NEHRUS INDIA | xv |
The Biggest Gamble in History | xvi |
Home and the World | vii |
Redrawing the | xi |
The Conquest of Nature | vii |
The Law and the Prophets | xi |
Securing Kashmir | viii |
Tribal Trouble | ix |
PART THREE SHAKING THE CENTRE | xxiv |
The Southern Challenge | i |
The Experience of Defeat | xi |
Peace in Our Time | i |
Democracy in Disarray | xvi |
This Son also Rises | xix |
PART FIVE A HISTORY OF EVENTS | xviii |
Rights and Riots | xix |
A Multipolar Polity | xlii |
Rulers and Riches | i |
Progress and its Discontents | xvi |
The Rise of the BJP Systems | xix |
A 5050 Democracy | xvii |
Acknowledgements | xviii |
Notes | xxi |
Index | 2021 |
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