World’s Largest Democracy Book Author:-Ramachandra Guha

The book, India After Gandhi : The History of the World’s Largest Democracy focuses on the significant events in the history of India which highlight the core of its past and present, its politics, culture and society. The chapters in the book deal with the struggle which India faced past almost a century of colonization, the components of Indian culture, the return of caste and the revival of religion and the effects of war and globalization.

This book is also concerned with providing insights into the life of India’s first Prime Minister, the troubled times of emergency during Indira Gandhi’s regime, the liberation of Bangladesh and the lives of farmers, musicians, tribals and workers.

India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy meticulously describes how a country plagued by the evils of discrimination in terms of caste, creed, religion and language rose to form the world’s largest democracy. A detailed account of events that shook the foundation of India and the events that helped in joining the broken pieces together is given in this thoroughly researched and well written book.

The book was first published in the year 2007. It is available in paperback and the publisher is Picador. This Indian ed edition was published on 14th August, 2008.

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Content of the book

PART ONE – PICKING UP THE PIECES
1. Freedom and Parricide
2. The Logic of Division
3. Apples in the Basket
4. A Valley Bloody and Beautiful
5. Refugees and the Republic
6. Ideas of India
PART TWO – NEHRU’S I NDIA
7. The Biggest Gamble in History
8. Home and the World
9. Redrawing the Map
10. The Conquest of Nature
11. The Law and the Prophets
12. Securing Kashmir
13. Tribal Trouble
PART THREE – SHAKING THE CENTRE
14. The Southern Challenge
15. The Experience of Defeat
16. Peace in Our Time
17. Minding the Minorities
PART FOUR – THE RISE OF POPULISM
18. War and Succession
19. Leftward Turns
20. The Elixir of Victory
21. The Rivals
22. Autumn of the Matriarch
23. Life Without the Congress
24. Democracy in Disarray
25. This Son also Rises
PART FIVE – A HISTORY OF EVENTS
26. Rights
27. Riots
28. Rulers
29. Riches
30. A People’s Entertainments
Epilogue: Why India Survives
Acknowledgements

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