India after Gandhi : the history of the world's largest democracy
Record details
- ISBN: 0062978063
- ISBN: 9780062978066
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Physical Description:
xxxiv, 919 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
print - 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. |
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Subject: | India History 1947- |
Genre: | Informational works. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Cambria County Library | 954.04 G942i, Rev. ed. (Text) | 85131001822882 | CACM Non-Fiction | Available | - |
RACC | DS480.84 .G74 2019 (Text) | 33624024885616 | Books | Available | - |