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India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha

A history of the Indian nation after it gained independence from the British Empire on 15 August 1947, India after Gandhi was chosen Book of the Year by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal and Outlook, among others. The book won the 2011 Sahitya Akademi Award for English

Contents

PART ONE – PICKING UP THE PIECES

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1.  Freedom and Parricide
2.  The Logic of Division
3.  Apples in the Basket
4.  A Valley Bloody and Beautiful
5.  Refugees and the Republic
6.  Ideas of India

PART TWO – NEHRU’S INDIA

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7.  The Biggest Gamble in History
8.  Home and the World
9.  Redrawing the Map
10.  The Conquest of Nature
11.  The Law and the Prophets
12.  Securing Kashmir
13.  Tribal Trouble

PART THREE – SHAKING THE CENTRE

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14.  The Southern Challenge
15.  The Experience of Defeat
16.  Peace in Our Time
17.  Minding the Minorities

PART FOUR – THE RISE OF POPULISM

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18.  War and Succession
19.  Leftward Turns
20.  The Elixir of Victory
21.  The Rivals
22.  Autumn of the Matriarch
23.  Life Without the Congress
24.  Democracy in Disarray
25.  This Son also Rises

PART FIVE – A HISTORY OF EVENTS

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26.  Rights
27.  Riots
28.  Riches
29.  A People’s Entertainments

Epilogue: Why India Survives

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