India After Gandhi
A History
$84.79
- Paperback
992 pages
- Release Date
14 November 2023
Summary
‘Magisterial’ - The Financial Times
An updated edition of Ramachandra Guha’s India After Gandhi with new material that explains the major events, policy shifts and controversies of the past decade, placing them in their proper sociological and historical context and setting out the author’s justifiable concerns for the decline of democracy in India.
Born against a background of privation and civil war, divided along lines of caste, class, language and religion, indepe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035014729 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035014726 |
| Author: | Ramachandra Guha |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 992 |
| Edition: | 3rd |
| Release Date: | 14 November 2023 |
| Weight: | 1.17kg |
| Dimensions: | 61mm x 155mm x 233mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Finally, here is a history of democratic India that is every bit as sweeping as the country itself. A magisterial work * Financial Times *
Guha has given democratic India the rich, well-paced history it deserves * Washington Post *
An insightful, spirited and elegantly crafted account of India since 1947. * Times Literary Supplement *
India after Gandhi is a magnificently told history of the world’s largest democracy. It is a riveting story with unforgettable characters and towering challenges, immense greatness and extraordinary venality, soaring hopes and profound disappointment. * India Today *
It is a formidable undertaking to write in a single volume a history of this vast country … Keeping in proportion the separate elements of so huge and sprawling a history calls for the finest judgement …. Guha rises noble to the challenges: his history is as comprehensive, balanced and elegantly crafted as any reasonable reader could expect. * Spectator *
Ramachandra Guha
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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