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About Ramachandra Guha
See more books from this AuthorIndia’s first postindependence government was marked by Jawaharlal Nehru’s admirable determination, in the face of the violence accompanying the partition of India and Pakistan, to establish India as “a democratic secular State where all citizens enjoy full rights and are equally entitled to the ...
| Read Full Review of India After Gandhi: The Histo...One journalist wrote that with her death India faced a period of prolonged uncertainty, a conclusion, Guha says, that provided further proof of the late prime ministers success in undermining institutions that stood between her and the nation. A second son, Rajiv, took over after her death, ...
Aug 26 2007 | Read Full Review of India After Gandhi: The Histo...The story of India since 1947 is in large part the history of Nehru’s descendants.
Aug 26 2007 | Read Full Review of India After Gandhi: The Histo...The following correction was printed in the Observer's For the record column, Sunday 23 January 2011 India: A Portrait by Patrick French Buy it from the Guardian bookshop ...
Jan 16 2011 | Read Full Review of India After Gandhi: The Histo...India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha 688pp, Macmillan, £25 It's in the nature of nations to be addicted to their own histories.
Apr 21 2007 | Read Full Review of India After Gandhi: The Histo...Ramachandra Guha's epic history of modern India, "India After Gandhi," tackles this apparent paradox: India is a seemingly piecemeal country that is unified - somehow - despite tremendous diversity of caste, language, religion and class.
Aug 09 2007 | Read Full Review of India After Gandhi: The Histo...Eventually, I settled for Sunil Khilnani’s The Idea of India, an urbane, readable and sometimes personal account by a historically-minded political scientist who, again, had worked on France – his first book was Arguing Revolution: The Intellectual Left in Postwar France.
| Read Full Review of India After Gandhi: The Histo...Vikram Johri San Jose Mercury News 4 of 5 Stars "In India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy, historian Ramachandra Guha looks at the 60 years since independence.
Oct 05 2007 | Read Full Review of India After Gandhi: The Histo...'Patriots and Partisans' may not be enjoyed by all , given its serious content but it is definitely a great read for the reader base that will enjoy a good mix of politics and art.
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