![]() ![]() ![]() 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. ![]() This tenth anniversary edition, updated and expanded, brings the narrative up to the present. 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. Guha gives fresh insights into the lives and public careers of those long-serving Prime Ministers, Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. 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. Picador India 10th Anniversary Edition Updated And Expanded India After Gandhi The History Of The World’s Largest Democracy By Ramachandra Guha Original Book Total Pages:-920 Original Book Table of Contents 1. 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. THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST DEMOCRACY ![]()
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