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India After Gandhi:

The History of the World's Largest Democracy
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Pan Macmillan Limited, 2008 - 300 pages

Born against a background of privation and civil war, divided along lines of caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country. Ramachandra Guha’s hugely acclaimed book tells the full story - the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the glories - of the world’s largest and least likely democracy.

While India is sometimes the most exasperating country in the world, it is also the most interesting. Ramachandra Guha writes compellingly of the myriad protests and conflicts that have peppered the history of free India. Moving between history and biography, the story of modern India is peopled with extraordinary characters. Guha gives fresh insights on the lives and public careers of those longserving Prime Ministers, Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. But the book also writes with feeling and sensitivity about lesser known (though not necessarily less important) Indians - peasants, tribals, women, workers and musicians.

Massively researched and elegantly written, India After Gandhi is a remarkable account of India’s rebirth, and a work already hailed as a masterpiece of single volume history.

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Objective portrayal of facts. - Goodreads
The style of writing also helps in easy reading. - Goodreads
He makes his books easy to read and very interesting. - Goodreads
Lots of nostalgic photographs. - Goodreads
Free-flowing prose with a lot of substance. - Goodreads
Guha's writing is so addictive. - Goodreads

Review: India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

Avis d'utilisateur  - Mukti Jain - Goodreads

Objective portrayal of facts. Impartial writing. A must read for all journalists. Read it to get the experience of watching a history movie, but it engaged me for more than that. Consulter l'avis complet

Review: India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

Avis d'utilisateur  - Tarun Bahuguna - Goodreads

A read for every Indian Alright the above statement might not be for everyone but if you really want to know what happened in our great nation post independence then this is the book for you. I ... Consulter l'avis complet

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À propos de l'auteur (2008)

Ramachandra Guha's books cover a wide range of themes: they include a global history of environmentalism, a biography of an anthropologist-activist, a social history of Indian cricket, and a social history of Himalayan peasants. His entire career, he says, seems in retrospect to have been an extended (and painful) preparation for the writing of India After Gandhi.

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