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India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy

Ramachandra Guha

How did a country many expected to break apart after independence stay together as a democracy?

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Ramachandra Guha

Why read it

  • You will see how a state can hold together deep differences of language, religion and region
  • You will learn to doubt confident predictions that a country or an empire is about to fall apart
  • You will understand how fights over borders, language and Kashmir shaped the country you read about in the news

Who it is for

  • A business traveler preparing to work in India
  • A student asking whether democracy can survive deep divisions
  • Someone with Indian colleagues who wants the political backstory

Contents

  1. PART ONE
  2. PICKING UP THE PIECES
  3. FREEDOM AND PARRICIDE
  4. THE LOGIC OF DIVISION
  5. APPLES IN THE BASKET
  6. A VALLEY BLOODY AND BEAUTIFUL
  7. REFUGEES AND THE REPUBLIC
  8. IDEAS OF INDIA
  9. PART TWO
  10. NEHRU’S INDIA
  11. THE BIGGEST GAMBLE IN HISTORY
  12. HOME AND THE WORLD
  13. REDRAWING THE MAP
  14. THE CONQUEST OF NATURE
  15. THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS
  16. SECURING KASHMIR
  17. TRIBAL TROUBLE
  18. PART THREE
  19. SHAKING THE CENTRE
  20. THE SOUTHERN CHALLENGE
  21. THE EXPERIENCE OF DEFEAT
  22. PEACE IN OUR TIME
  23. MINDING THE MINORITIES
  24. PART FOUR
  25. THE RISE OF POPULISM
  26. WAR AND SUCCESSION
  27. LEFTWARD TURNS
  28. THE ELIXIR OF VICTORY
  29. THE RIVALS
  30. AUTUMN OF THE MATRIARCH
  31. IX
  32. LIFE WITHOUT THE CONGRESS
  33. DEMOCRACY IN DISARRAY
  34. THIS SON ALSO RISES
  35. PART FIVE
  36. A HISTORY OF EVENTS
  37. RIGHTS
  38. RIOTS
  39. RULERS
  40. RICHES
  41. A PEOPLE’S ENTERTAINMENTS
  42. Why lndia Survives

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