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

By:

Guha Ramachandra

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Publication details: Oxford Picador 2008Description: 898p 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 raises --History of events: Rights; Riots; Rulers; Riches; People's entertainments --Epilogue: Why India survives;

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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 raises --History of events:
Rights; Riots; Rulers;
Riches;
People's entertainments --Epilogue:
Why India survives;

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