03169cam a22003495i 4500999001700000003000400017005001700021008004100038020001800079040001300097082002600110100003800136245009100174250002900265250002500294250003400319264003800353300008400391336002600475337002800501338002700529500003400556504006600590505094700656520095801603648002702561651003202588651004302620655004402663942001402707952009802721  c12951d12951OSt20230401151541.0200909s2019    nyuabf   b    001 0 eng c  a9789382616979  bengcAEF  223rd ed.a954.04bGUH1 aGuha, Ramachandra,eauthor.9289610aIndia after Gandhi :bthe history of the world's largest democracy /cRamachandra Guha  a10th anniversary edition  aUpdated and expanded  aSecond Ecco paperback edition 1aNew Delhi :bPICADOR INDIA,c2017  axxxiv, 919 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates :billustrations, maps ;c23 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  a"Revised and updated"--Cover.  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 787-881) and index0 aPreface 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.  aBorn 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. 7aSince 19472fast92897 0aIndiaxHistoryy1947-92898 7aIndia.2fast0(OCoLC)fst0121027692899 7aHistory.2fast0(OCoLC)fst014116289977  2ddccBook  00102ddc4070aAEFbAEFd2023-04-11e20g599.25p8375r2023-04-11v799.00w2023-04-11yBook