India after Gandhi :

Guha, Ramachandra.

India after Gandhi : the history of the world`s largest democracy / Ramachandra Guha. - 1st ed. - New York : Ecco, c2007. - xviii, 893 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [765]-857) and index.

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 -- 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 -- Shaking the centre -- The southern challenge -- The experience of defeat -- Peace in our time -- Minding the minorities -- 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 -- A history of events -- Rights -- Riots -- Rulers -- Riches -- A people`s entertainments.

9780060198817 0060198818


India--History--1947-

954.04 / GUH
Copyright © 2020 Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar. All Rights Reserved.
You are Visitor No   
Hit Counter