Books : India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
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by: Ramachandra Guha
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 909
EAN: 9780060958589
ISBN: 0060958588
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 944
Publication Date: August 01, 2008
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: August 12, 2008
Sales Rank: 24603
Studio: Harper Perennial
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Amagisterial 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.
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Rating:  - Great read
Although this book can read like a text book at times, I had a hard time putting it down. I vaguely remember many of the events starting with Indira Gandhi so it was great to put these in context for myself. The history prior to that (post British rule) was very interesting, well written and easy to follow.
I would've liked to have seen more pictures or photos, but alas everyone including myself is a critic.
I highly recommend it.
Rating: - Fair, comprehensive and just slighlty nationalistic
Ramachanrda Guha's history of "India after Gandhi" is a fascinating, fact-rich, comphrehensive history of late 20th Century India. Except for a an ocassional and understanable tint of nationlistic pride, Guha is impartial. He writes without political agenda. He just wants the reader to know the story and why the story is important. And unless you are already very well-versed in the recent history of India, you will learn much.
While I give this book four stars, but be fair-warned ... Read More
Rating:  - Discovery of India (independence onward)
If Nehru were to pick his choice of a historian to chronicle Indian history starting where he left off with his Discovery of India letters to Indira from 1942-46; he would probably have lived a decade longer in his excitement after finding Ramachandra Guha. Never before has a historian (or any human being for that matter) undergone the momentous task of uncovering and articulating the history of the world's largest democracy the way Guha has with India After Gandhi. Leave opinion, judgment, agenda, and ... Read More
Rating: - A must read for all Indians and Indophiles
I was waiting for a book like this for a long time. It covers the first 50 years of India as an independent country. All Indians must read this book for a good understanding of India's recent political history, and the shaping of modern India.
Rating:  - India after Ramachandra Guha
The international audience might gasp at the comprehensiveness of this tome, but any politically aware Indian will tell you this book offers the same half-truths, and whips up the same paranoia about Indian right. He composed a banal version of Indian history from regular news sources anybody can get their hands on.
It's a pity so few books about India are available to the international public, and so many of them are written by leftist historians. And worse, this guy is not even a historian. ... Read More
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