Name/Title
India after Gandhi :the history of the world's largest democracy /Ramachandra Guha.Description
Prologue :Unnatural nation --pt. 1.Picking up the pieces :1.Freedom and parricide ;2.The logic of division ;3.Apples in the basket ;4.A valley bloody and beautiful ;5.Refugees and the republic ;6.Ideas of India --pt. 2.Nehru's India :7.The biggest gamble in history ;8.Home and the world ;9.Redrawing the map ;10.The conquest of nature ;11.The law and the prophets ;12.Securing Kashmir ;13.Tribal trouble --pt. 3.Shaking the centre :14.The southern challenge ;15.The experience of defeat ;16.Peace in our time ;17.Minding the minorities --pt. 4.The rise of populism :18.War and succession ;19.Leftward turns ;20.The elixir of victory ;21.The rivals ;22.Autumn of the matriarch ;23.Life without the congress ;24.Democracy in disarray ;25.This son also rises --pt. 5.A history of events :26.Rights ;27.Riots ;28.Rulers ;29.Riches ;30.A people's entertainments --Epilogue :Why India survives.
xxvi, 898 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates :illustrations, maps, portraits ;20 cmBook Details
Author
Guha, Ramachandra.Date Published
2008Publication Subjects
Political science.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01069781Call No.
DS480.84 .G84 2008ISBN
9780330396110, 0330396110Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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