India after Gandhi : the history of the world's largest democracy / by Ramachandra Guha

Includes notes and index.

PART I : 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 II : 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 III : SHAKING THE CENTRE -- The southern challenge -- The experience of defeat -- Peace in our time -- Minding the minorities -- PART IV : 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 V : A HISTORY OF EVENTS -- Rights and riots -- A multi-polar polity -- Rulers and riches -- Progress and its discontents -- The rise of the "BJP Systems"