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India after Gandhi : the history of the world's largest democracy / Ramachandra Guha.

Guha, Ramachandra, (author.).

Summary:
Born in privation and civil war, divided by caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country. This book tells the full story, the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the glories, of the world's largest and least likely democracy. The author, a social historian writes of the protests and conflicts that have peppered the history of free India, but also of the factors and processes that have kept the country together (and kept it democratic), defying numerous prophets of doom who believed that it would break up or come under autocratic rule. This story of modern India is peopled with extraordinary characters: the author gives fresh insights on the lives and public careers of the long-serving prime ministers, but also writes about the major provincial leaders and other lesser known (though not necessarily less important) Indians, peasants, tribals, women, workers and musicians.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780062978066
  • ISBN: 0062978063
  • Physical Description: xxxiv, 919 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
  • Edition: 10th anniversary edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2019.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Revised and updated"--Cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 787-881) and index
Formatted Contents Note:
Preface to the second edition -- Prologue: Unnatural nation -- Part 1: 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 -- Part 2: 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 -- Part 3: Shaking the centre. The southern challenge ; The experience of defeat ; Peace in our time ; Minding the minorities -- Part 4: 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 -- Part 5: A history of events. Rights and riots ; A multi-polar polity ; Rulers and riches ; Progress and its discontents ; The rise of the "BJP system" -- Epilogue: A 50-50 democracy.
Subject: India > History > 1947-
Genre: Informational works.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Cambria County Library 954.04 G942i, Rev. ed. (Text) 85131001822882 CACM Non-Fiction Available -
RACC DS480.84 .G74 2019 (Text) 33624024885616 Books Available -


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