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100 1 $aGuha, Ramachandra,$eauthor.
245 10 $aIndia after Gandhi :$bthe history of the world's largest democracy /$cRamachandra Guha
250 $a10th anniversary edition
250 $aUpdated and expanded
250 $aSecond Ecco paperback edition
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bEcco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,$c2019
300 $axxxiv, 919 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $a"Revised and updated"--Cover
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 787-881) and index
520 $aBorn 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.
505 0 $aUnnatural 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.
651 0 $aIndia$xHistory$y1947-
651 7 $aIndia.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01210276
648 7 $aSince 1947$2fast
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
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