Guha, Ramachandra <br/><br/>
India after Gandhi  the history of the world's largest democracy 
by Ramachandra Guha 
 - 2nd rev. ed. 
 - New Delhi  Picador India  2017 
 - xxxv, 919p.;  23.5 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes notes and index. 
<br/><br/>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" 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789382616979  Rs.799.00 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>History--India--1947-1971<br/>Political Science<br/>History
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>954.04  / GUI