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

By Ramachandra Guha

Categories: History

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy (2007) by Ramachandra Guha is a history of independent India. Guha traces India from independence and partition in 1947 through the decades that followed, covering the integration of the princely states, the drafting of the constitution, wars with Pakistan and China, Indira Gandhi's emergency, economic reform and religious and regional conflict, examining how a diverse nation held together as a democracy.

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