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This is a review of Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi: 3rd Edition. (Picador India, 2023). ISBN: 9395624590. John West is the author of the book, Asian Century … on a Knife-Edge, which was reviewed in the Australian Outlook, and executive director of the Asian Century Institute. He has had a long career in international economics and ...

17,397 ratings1,493 reviews. 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.

By Ramachandra Guha. Illustrated. 893 pp. Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers. $34.95. Isaac Chotiner has written for The Times, The New Republic and other publications. The story of India since 1947 is ...

This page-turner surges forward with the pacing of a true-crime thriller, elevated by Grann's crisp and evocative prose and enhanced by dozens of period photographs. Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil. 21. Pub Date: April 18, 2017.

Ramchandra Guha, India after Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy. New Delhi: Picador India, 2017, 10th Anniversary Edition. XXXV + 919 pp., ₹799. ... Book Review: Mukul Dube, India Since 2002: Articles Published in Mainstream, Yogesh Atal and Sunil K. Choudhary, Right Turn in Indian Polity—Modi on BJP's Chariot ...

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. 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 ...

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy is a non-fiction book by Indian historian Ramachandra Guha. ... On Bookmarks Magazine, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (4.0 out of 5) based on critic reviews with the critical summary stating, ...

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy. Ramachandra Guha. HarperCollins, Jun 11, 2019 - History - 951 pages. 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 materialTold in lucid and beautiful ...

Ranked #2 in Gandhi, Ranked #8 in Democracy — see more rankings. 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 ...

Amagisterial 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 ...

India after Gandhi — a book review. Ramachandra Guha's "India after Gandhi" is a masterpiece of modern history, writes John West. India is an "unnatural nation", according to Guha. "Because they are so many and so various, the people of India are also divided", according to Guha. Guha writes that "the pages of this book are ...

I am proud to say that I finished the 780-page epic. India after Gandhi - The history of the world's largest democracy, by Ramachandra Guha.We are never taught in schools about the Post-Independent India. History lessons in high schools in India stop at 15th August 1947. What after that? What happened from 16th August 1947 to today.

Reading this book and others (e.g. Nehru: The Invention Of India - Shashi Tharoor) I am now able to appreciate the monumental task which lied ahead of triumvirate of Indian Independence struggle (read again .. no Gandhi here) of integrating ~545 princely states into one nation, setting up IAS/ICS to conduct first free and fair elections (1951 ...

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 ...

Ramchandra Guha, India after Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy. New Delhi: Picador India, 2017, 10th Anniversary Edition. XXXV + 919 pp., ₹799. ... Book review: Ramchandra Guha, India after Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy. Mahendra Prasad Singh View all authors and affiliations. Volume 64, Issue 2.

Born in privation and civil war, divided by caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country. This remarkable book tells the full story--the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the glories--of the world's largest and least likely democracy.

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 Told in lucid and beautiful prose, the story of India's wild ride toward and since Independence is a riveting one. Taking full advantage of the dramatic details of the protests and conflicts that helped shape the ...

This is a review of Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi: 3rd Edition. (Picador India, 2023). ISBN: 9395624590. John West is the author of the book, Asian Century … on a Knife-Edge, which was reviewed in the Australian Outlook, and executive director of the Asian Century Institute. He has had a long career in international economics and ...

Reading this book and others (e.g. Nehru: The Invention Of India - Shashi Tharoor) I am now able to appreciate the monumental task which lied ahead of triumvirate of Indian Independence struggle (read again .. no Gandhi here) of integrating ~545 princely states into one nation, setting up IAS/ICS to conduct first free and fair elections (1951 ...

Reading this book and others (e.g. Nehru: The Invention Of India - Shashi Tharoor) I am now able to appreciate the monumental task which lied ahead of triumvirate of Indian Independence struggle (read again .. no Gandhi here) of integrating ~545 princely states into one nation, setting up IAS/ICS to conduct first free and fair elections (1951 ...

Irfan Habib and Vijay Kumar Thakur, The Vedic Age and the Coming of Iron, c. 1500-700 BC, A People's History of India, Vol. 3 (New Delhi: Aligarh Historians Society, Tulika Books), 2014 (7th ...

Dr. Anuradha Marwah's 'Aunties of Vasant Kunj' humorously explores the intertwined lives of three women in Delhi. Shailaja, Mrs Gandhi, and Dini navigate love, betrayal, activism, and self-worth.

She participated in the Salt Satyagraha beside Gandhi in 1930 and, in 1931, attended the Second Round Table Conference. In 1947, she presided over the first Asian Relations Conference, which later ...

From one of the subcontinent's 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 India's wild ride toward and since Independence is a riveting one. Taking full advantage of the dramatic details of the protests and conflicts that helped shape the ...

In his complaint, Srinivas said Choudhury on his X account alleged Sonia Gandhi was an agent of Pakistan's ISI. The Congress leader added Choudhary with the intention of creating enmity between two religions also claimed in his post that Sonia Gandhi still follows Christianity despite having inter-religion marriage and acquiring Indian citizenship.