India after Gandhi : the history of the world's largest democracy
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India after Gandhi : the history of the world's largest democracy
Macmillan, 2017
Rev. ed
- : pbk
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"First published 2007 by Macmillan ... This revised edition published in the UK 2017 by Macmillan an imprint of Pan Macmillan"--T.p. verso
"Revised and updated with extensive new material"--Cover
"'Magisterial' Financial Times"--Cover
"Preface to the second edition" dated 2016
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Born against a background of privation and civil war, divided along lines of caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country. Ramachandra Guha's hugely acclaimed book tells the full story - the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the glories - of the world's largest and least likely democracy.
While India is sometimes the most exasperating country in the world, it is also the most interesting. Ramachandra Guha writes compellingly of the myriad protests and conflicts that have peppered the history of free India. Moving between history and biography, the story of modern India is peopled with extraordinary characters. Guha gives fresh insights into the lives and public careers of those long-serving Prime Ministers, Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. But the book also writes with feeling and sensitivity about lesser-known (though not necessarily less important) Indians - peasants, tribals, women, workers and musicians.
Massively researched and elegantly written, India After Gandhi is a remarkable account of India's rebirth, and a work already hailed as a masterpiece of single volume history. This tenth anniversary edition, published to coincide with seventy years of India's independence, is revised and expanded to bring the narrative up to the present.
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