Ramachandra Guha
Hardcover | Pages: 912 pages Rating: 4.37 | 13734 Users | 1111 Reviews
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| Title | : | India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy |
| Author | : | Ramachandra Guha |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 912 pages |
| Published | : | July 24th 2007 by Ecco (first published April 20th 2007) |
| Categories | : | History. Cultural. India. Nonfiction. Politics |
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A magisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi is a breathtaking chronicle of the brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation and the extraordinary factors that have held it together. An intricately researched and elegantly written epic history peopled with larger-than-life characters, it is the work of a major scholar at the peak of his abilities...Be Specific About Books In Pursuance Of India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
| Original Title: | India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy |
| ISBN: | 0060198818 (ISBN13: 9780060198817) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Kiriyama Prize Nominee for Nonfiction (2008), Cundill History Prize Nominee (2008) |
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Ratings: 4.37 From 13734 Users | 1111 ReviewsComment On Out Of Books India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
Warning: this is going to be a long read.Such an immersive thriller-like and all-encompassing narrative of the Indian history! Given this is the history of the worlds largest democracy, with a rich diversity of region, culture, religion etc, the book is surprisingly compact, at 900 pages. Oh, but 100 of those are notes and references, so its even more compact at 800 pages.The book reminds the reader - how gigantic Nehrus stature really was. His political strength allowed him to get throughNever has history been told in such colour and with such emotion. Rightly deserves to be called Guha's masterpiece. A book that takes you through the fight of a young nation against the veritable elements threatening secularism, its dangerous but nevertheless great gamble with democracy, its idealist argument against the more realist one for alignment, its parenthood falling from that of great men of integrity to mortals with vanity, and the rise of populism on the price of constitutional
As I set to type this review, I also seriously consider not doing so, on account of my naivete. In all fairness, I am new to this genre and this book had been lying around for more than a year in my shelf, till I started reading it after I had finished some 100 odd pages in a friend's copy.I have not read any other book that was so dense as this and yet so well-paced. The amount of information in each page is staggering. The only book I know that has more footnotes than this is, perhaps, the
An excellent, thorough history of modern India, post-independence.The first half, covering the decades under PM Nehru and the drafting of the Indian Constitution, is really inspiring. Nehru was an idealist who believed in social change; he worked with B.R. Ambedkar, an Untouchable who was the primary draftsman of the constitution, to keep India as a secular state and to overturn the caste system. Nehru also worked to protect minority groups such as women and Muslims, to create an economic and
"If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong. Terry Pratchett"India is world's largest but least likely democracy. But how it still survives?To me, Indian history always meant what happened till 1947 (year of Independence) or perhaps my knowledge expands one little year further till Gandhiji's death. I was kept in the
For us Indians, the history usually end with the Independence Day i.e. Aug 15, '47 or more specifically when Mahatma Gandhi died on Oct 30, '48. But what about the events after that, that rocked us and shaped our destiny, of what and who we are today. The greatest experiment in democracy deserve an equal credit to share its story of ups and downs and what it has become as of today.India After Gandhi is the book that bridges this gap by providing a first rate account of the various people that
Lest we begin taking the existence of India for granted. In this book, Ramachandra Guha takes on the difficult job of instilling a reasonable degree of patriotism in your average armchair skeptic without resorting to India-Pakistan jingoism or sanctimoniously reminding us of our glorious ancient history. He succeeds magnificently by furnishing an insightful post-independence (albeit Nehruvian) narrative history of India that sheds light on the unprecedented miracle that is the Indian
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