DINODIA Manu became Gandhis confidante and chronicler in his later years Her. Massively researched and elegantly written, this is the work of a major scholar at the height of his powers, a brilliant and definitive history of what is possibly the most important, occasionally the most exasperating, and certainly the most interesting country in the world. Now they have been translated into English by Gandhi scholar Tridip Suhrud and published for the first time ever. 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. New Delhi: Picador India, 2017, 10th Anniversary Edition. 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. PDF Ramchandra Guha, India after Gandhi: The History of the Worlds Largest Democracy. Taking full advantage of the dramatic details of the protests and conflicts that helped shape the nation, politically, socially, and economically, Guha writes of the factors and processes that have kept the country together, and kept it democratic, defying the numerous prophets of doom.

Book Synopsis From one of the subcontinents most important and controversial writers comes this definitive history of post-Partition India, published on the 60th anniversary of Independence Told in lucid and beautiful prose, the story of Indias wild ride toward and since Independence is a riveting one. book tells the full story-the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the glories-of the worlds largest and least likely democracy-From publisher description. India After Gandhi, the English version was picked as the Book of the Year by Outlook and The Economist and it went onto win the 2011 Sahitya Akademi Award. About the Book Born in privation and civil war, divided by caste, class, language, and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country.

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