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_cRs.799.00
040 _aHCCL
041 _aeng
082 _a954.04
_bGUI
100 1 _4aut
_aGuha, Ramachandra
245 _aIndia after Gandhi
_bthe history of the world's largest democracy
_cby Ramachandra Guha
250 _a2nd rev. ed.
260 _aNew Delhi
_bPicador India
_c2017
300 _axxxv, 919p.;
_c23.5 cm.
500 _aIncludes notes and index.
505 0 _aPART 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"
650 _aHistory
_zIndia
_y1947-1971
650 _aPolitical Science
650 _aHistory
942 _cBK
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