03533cam a22004575i 4500 21711503 OSt 20231208100528.0 200909s2019 nyuabf b 001 0 eng c 2020302540 9789382616979 9780062978066 (pbk.) 0062978063 (pbk.) (OCoLC)on1121427865 LNC eng rda LNC BDX BKL NYP CNWPU LMJ OCLCF IAK DLC pcc a-ii--- DS480.84 .G74 2019 954.04 GUH/R Guha, Ramachandra author. 118 India after Gandhi : the history of the world's largest democracy / Ramachandra Guha 10th anniversary edition Updated and expanded Second Ecco paperback edition New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2019 xxxiv, 919 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "Revised and updated"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages 787-881) and index Preface to the second edition -- Prologue: Unnatural nation -- Part 1: 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 -- Part 2: 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 -- Part 3: Shaking the centre. The southern challenge ; The experience of defeat ; Peace in our time ; Minding the minorities -- Part 4: 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 -- Part 5: A history of events. Rights and riots ; A multi-polar polity ; Rulers and riches ; Progress and its discontents ; The rise of the "BJP system" -- Epilogue: A 50-50 democracy. Born in privation and civil war, divided by caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country. This book tells the full story, the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the glories, of the world's largest and least likely democracy. The author, a social historian writes of the protests and conflicts that have peppered the history of free India, but also of the factors and processes that have kept the country together (and kept it democratic), defying numerous prophets of doom who believed that it would break up or come under autocratic rule. This story of modern India is peopled with extraordinary characters: the author gives fresh insights on the lives and public careers of the long-serving prime ministers, but also writes about the major provincial leaders and other lesser known (though not necessarily less important) Indians, peasants, tribals, women, workers and musicians. Since 1947 fast India History 1947- India. fast (OCoLC)fst01210276 History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 7 cbc pccadap 1 ncip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 954.04 GUH/I 954.04 GUH/I 0 0 ddc 0 0 HISTORY MES MES HIS 2023-12-08 0 954.04 GUH/R 43888 2023-12-08 10:03:37 999.00 2023-12-08 BK GL37R3 43711 43711