India after Gandhi : the history of the world's largest democracy
by Ramachandra Guha
- 1st ed.
- London: Macmillan Ltd. 2007
- xxvi, 900p., notes, ind. 24 cm x 16 cm
9780330396103
autumn of the matriarch biggest gamble in history democracy in disarray elixir of victory experience of defeat freedom and parricide history 1947 ideas of India India law and the prophets leftward turns life without the Congress minding the minorities Nehru's India peace in our time people's entertainments picking up the pieces redrawing the map refugees and the republic riches rights riots rise of populism rulers securing Kashmir shaking the centre southern challenge tribal trouble valley bloody and beautiful war and succession