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

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guha, Ramachandra (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]
Edition:10th anniversary edition.
Subjects:
India > History > 1947-
Table of Contents:
  • Unnatural nation
  • Freedom and parricide
  • The logic of division
  • Apples in the basket
  • A valley bloody and beautiful
  • Refugees and the Republic
  • Ideas of 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
  • The southern challenge
  • The experience of defeat
  • Peace in our time
  • Minding the minorities
  • 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
  • Rights and riots
  • A multi-polar polity
  • Rulers and riches
  • Progress and its discontents
  • The rise of the "BJP system"
  • A 50-50 democracy.