India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy, 10th anniversary edition

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India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy, 10th anniversary edition

Author : Ramachandra Guha

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Highlights

English

Language

NA

Edition

960

Pages

9781447281887

ISBN-13

1447281887

ISBN-10

Anebooks - Palgrave / Macmillan

Publisher

234 mm

Height

153 mm

Width

58 mm

Thickness

Paperback

Binding

Description

Ramachandra Guha’s India after Gandhi is a magisterial account of the pains, struggles, humiliations and glories of the world’s largest and least likely democracy. A riveting chronicle of the often brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation, and of the extraordinary individuals and institutions who held it together, it established itself as a classic when it was first published in 2007.

In the last decade, India has witnessed, among other things, two general elections the fall of the Congress and the rise of Narendra Modi a major anti-corruption movement more violence against women, Dalits, and religious minorities a wave of prosperity for some but the persistence of poverty for others comparative peace in Nagaland but greater discontent in Kashmir than ever before. This tenth anniversary edition, updated and expanded, brings the narrative up to the present.

Published to coincide with seventy years of the country’s independence, this definitive history of modern India is the work of one of the world’s finest scholars at the height of his powers.