India after Gandhi the history of the world's largest democracy
Born in privation and civil war, divided by caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country. This remarkable book tells the full story--the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the glories--of the world's largest and least likel...
| Main Author: | Guha, Ramachandra. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Ecco,
c2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.