This tenth anniversary edition, published to coincide with seventy years of India’s independence, is revised and expanded to bring the narrative up to the present.
For centuries, the country was ruled by colonial overlords, but that changed in. Massively researched and elegantly written, India After Gandhi is a remarkable account of India’s rebirth, and a work already hailed as a masterpiece of single volume history. India after Gandhi (2007) chronicles the story of post-independence India. But the book also writes with feeling and sensitivity about lesser-known (though not necessarily less important) Indians – peasants, tribals, women, workers and musicians. Guha gives fresh insights into the lives and public careers of those long-serving Prime Ministers, Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi.
Moving between history and biography, the story of modern India is peopled with extraordinary characters. Ramachandra Guha writes compellingly of the myriad protests and conflicts that have peppered the history of free India. While India is sometimes the most exasperating country in the world, it is also the most interesting. Ramachandra Guha’s hugely acclaimed book tells the full story – the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the glories – of the world’s largest and least likely democracy. Born against a background of privation and civil war, divided along lines of caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country.
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