Description: India After Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha The definitive history of modern India in a new third edition, featuring extensive new material, published to mark the 75th anniversary of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Magisterial - The Financial TimesAn updated edition of Ramachandra Guhas India After Gandhi with new material that explains the major events, policy shifts and controversies of the past decade, placing them in their proper sociological and historical context and setting out the authors justifiable concerns for the decline of democracy in India.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. Ramachandra Guhas hugely acclaimed book tells the full story - the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the glories - of the worlds largest and least likely democracy.While India is sometimes the most exasperating country in the world, it is also the most interesting. Ramachandra Guha writes compellingly of the myriad protests and conflicts that have peppered the history of free India. Moving between history and biography, the story of modern India is peopled with extraordinary characters. Guha gives fresh insights into the lives and public careers of those long-serving Prime Ministers, Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. But the book also writes with feeling and sensitivity about lesser-known (though not necessarily less important) Indians - peasants, tribals, women, workers and musicians.Massively researched and elegantly written, India After Gandhi is a remarkable account of Indias rebirth, and a work already hailed as a masterpiece of single-volume history. This third edition brings the story fully up to date. Author Biography Ramachandra Guhas books cover a wide range of themes: they include a global history of environmentalism, a biography of an anthropologist-activist, a social history of Indian cricket, and a social history of Himalayan peasants. His entire career, he says, seems in retrospect to have been an extended (and painful) preparation for the writing of India After Gandhi. Review Finally, here is a history of democratic India that is every bit as sweeping as the country itself. A magisterial work * Financial Times *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 worlds largest democracy. It is a riveting story with unforgettable characters and towering challenges, immense greatness and extraordinary venality, soaring hopes and profound disappointment. * India Today *It is a formidable undertaking to write in a single volume a history of this vast country ... Keeping in proportion the separate elements of so huge and sprawling a history calls for the finest judgement .... Guha rises noble to the challenges: his history is as comprehensive, balanced and elegantly crafted as any reasonable reader could expect. * Spectator * Promotional The definitive history of modern India in a new third edition, featuring extensive new material, published to mark the 75th anniversary of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Details ISBN1035014726 Author Ramachandra Guha Publisher Pan Macmillan Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 1035014726 ISBN-13 9781035014729 Format Paperback Publication Date 2023-07-06 UK Release Date 2023-07-06 Audience Age 18 Edition 3rd Imprint Picador Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 992 Edition Description 3rd edition Subtitle A History DEWEY 954.04092 Audience General AU Release Date 2023-11-13 NZ Release Date 2023-11-13 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:142567589;
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