india after gandhi 10th anniversary edition

Guha includes vivid sketches of the major “provincial” leaders, but also writes with feeling and sensitivity about lesser-known Indians-peasants, tribals, women, workers, and Untouchables.

Moving between history and biography, this story provides fresh insights into the lives and public careers of those legendary and long-serving Prime Ministers, Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter, Indira Gandhi. Taking full advantage of the dramatic details of the protests and conflicts that helped shape the nation, politically, socially, and economically, Ramachandra Guha writes of the factors and processes that have kept the country together, and kept it democratic, defying the numerous prophets of doom. Told in lucid and beautiful prose, the story of India’s wild ride toward and since Independence is a riveting one. Published to coincide with seventy years of the country?s independence, this definitive history of modern India is the work of one of the world?s finest scholars at the height of his powers.From one of the subcontinent’s most important and controversial writers comes this definitive history of post-Partition India, now revised and updated with extensive new material

This tenth anniversary edition, revised and expanded, brings the narrative up to the present. In the last decade, India has witnessed, among other things, two general elections the fall of the Congress and the rise of Narendra Modi a major anti-corruption movement more violence against women, Dalits, and religious minorities a wave of prosperity for some but the persistence of poverty for others comparative peace in Nagaland but greater discontent in Kashmir than ever before.

A riveting chronicle of the often brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation, and of the extraordinary individuals and institutions who held it together, it established itself as a classic when it was first published in 2007. 'Book of the Year - The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out and Outlook Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award Ramachandra Guha?s India after Gandhi is a magisterial account of the pains, struggles, humiliations and glories of the world?s largest and least likely democracy.

India after gandhi 10th anniversary edition