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...
Chapter 1. FREEDOM AND PARRICIDE
Chapter 2. THE LOGIC OF DIVISION
Chapter 3. APPLES IN THE BASKET
Chapter 4. A VALLEY BLOODY AND BEAUTIFUL
Chapter 5. REFUGEES AND THE REPUBLIC
Chapter 7. THE BIGGEST GAMBLE IN HISTORY
Chapter 10. THE CONQUEST OF NATURE
Chapter 11. THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS
Chapter 14. THE SOUTHERN CHALLENGE
Chapter 15. THE EXPERIENCE OF DEFEAT
Chapter 17. MINDING THE MINORITIES
Chapter 18. WAR AND SUCCESSION
Chapter 20. THE ELIXIR OF VICTORY
Chapter 22. AUTUMN OF THE MATRIARCH
Chapter 23. LIFE WITHOUT THE CONGRESS
Chapter 24. DEMOCRACY IN DISARRAY
Chapter 25. THIS SON ALSO RISES
Chapter 30. A PEOPLE’S ENTERTAINMENTS