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

By:

Guha Ramachandra

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Publication details: London Macmillan 2007Description: 900p xiSubject(s):

1. India - History - 1947

DDC classification:

954.040000 GUH

Contents:

Contents: Prologue: Unnatural nation -- Picking up the pieces: Freedom and parricide; Logic of division; Apples in the basket; Valley bloody and beautiful; Refugees and the Republic; Ideas of India -- Nehru's India: Biggest gamble in history; Home and the world; Redrawing the map; Conquest of nature; Law and the prophets; Securing Kashmir; Tribal trouble -- Shaking the centre: Southern challenge; Experience of defeat; Peace in our time; Minding the minorities -- Rise of populism: War and succession; Leftward turns; Elixir of victory; Rivals; Autumn of the matriarch; Life without the Congress; Democracy in disarray; This son also rises -- History of events: Rights; Riots; Rulers; Riches; People's entertainments -- Epilogue: Why India survives.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
BOOKs	National Law School	Library Compactors	954.04 GUH (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		22005

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Previous	954.04 CHO Quit India movement	954.04 DAY We fought together for freedom : Chapters from the Indian national movement	954.04 DHA Peasant movements in India 1920-50	954.04 GUH India after Gandhi : The history of the world's largest democracy	954.04 KAU The partitions of memory : The afterlife of the division of India	954.04 MEN Integration of the Indian states	954.04 RAY The naxalites and their ideology	Next

Contents: Prologue: Unnatural nation --
Picking up the pieces: Freedom and parricide; Logic of division; Apples in the basket; Valley bloody and beautiful; Refugees and the Republic; Ideas of India --
Nehru's India: Biggest gamble in history; Home and the world; Redrawing the map; Conquest of nature; Law and the prophets; Securing Kashmir; Tribal trouble --
Shaking the centre: Southern challenge; Experience of defeat; Peace in our time; Minding the minorities --
Rise of populism: War and succession; Leftward turns; Elixir of victory; Rivals; Autumn of the matriarch; Life without the Congress; Democracy in disarray; This son also rises --
History of events: Rights; Riots; Rulers; Riches; People's entertainments --
Epilogue: Why India survives.

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