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100 _aGuha, Ramachandra
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245 _aIndia after Gandhi:
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250 _a3rd
260 _bPicador India
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_c2023
300 _axxxvi, 942 p.
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520 _a‘Finally, here is a history of democratic India that is everybit as sweeping as the country itself . . . [A] magisterial work’ FinancialTimes ‘Guha has given democratic India the rich, well-paced history it deserves’ WashingtonPost ‘An insightful, spirited and elegantly crafted account of India since 1947’ TimesLiterary Supplement ‘A magnificently told history of the world’s largest democracy’ India Today Ramachandra Guha’s India After Gandhi is a magisterial account of thepains, struggles, humiliations and glories of the world’s largest and leastlikely democracy. A riveting chronicle of the often brutal conflicts that haverocked a giant nation, and of the extraordinary individuals and institutionswho held it together, it established itself as a classic when it was firstpublished in 2007. In the years since the publication of the book’s tenth anniversary edition,India has witnessed, among other things, demonetization and a devastating pandemic;Narendra Modi’s re-election as Prime Minister; more violence against women,Dalits, and religious minorities; a wave of prosperity for some but thepersistence of poverty for others; the abrogation of Kashmir’s autonomousstatus; large-scale citizens’ protests and unprecedented state crackdown ondissent. This third edition, revised and expanded, brings the narrative up tothe present. Published to coincide with the seventy-fifth anniversary of Gandhi’sassassination, this definitive history of modern India is the work of one ofthe world’s finest scholars at the height of his powers. (https://www.panmacmillan.co.in/bookdetails/9789395624589/India-After-Gandhi-3rd-Edition-(Revised-and-Updated)-HB/230)
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