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008			061206s2007 nyuabf b 001 0 eng
020			_a9780060198817
035			_a(OCoLC)ocm76961156
035			_a(OCoLC)76961156
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050	0	0	_aDS 480.84 _b.G939 2007
100	1		_aGuha, Ramachandra. _931619
245	1	0	_aIndia after Gandhi : _bthe history of the world's largest democracy _cRamachandra Guha.
250			_aFirst Edition.
260			_aNew York, NY : _bEcco, _cc2007.
264			_aNew York, NY : _bEcco, _cc2007.
300			_axviii, 893 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [765]-857) and index.
505	0		_aPicking up the pieces -- Freedom and parricide -- The logic of division -- Apples in the basket -- A valley bloody and beautiful -- Refugees and the Republic -- Ideas of India -- Nehru's India -- The biggest gamble in history -- Home and the world -- Redrawing the map -- The conquest of nature -- The law and the prophets -- Securing Kashmir --Tribal trouble -- Shaking the centre -- The southern challenge -- The experience of defeat -- Peace in our time -- Minding the minorities -- The rise of populism -- War and succession -- Leftward turns -- The elixir of victory -- The rivals -- Autumn of the matriarch -- Life without the Congress -- Democracy in disarray -- This son also rises -- A history of events -- Rights -- Riots -- Rulers -- Riches -- A people's entertainments.
520			_aBorn in privation and civil war, divided by caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country. This remarkable book tells the full story--the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the glories--of the world's largest and least likely democracy. Social historian Guha writes of the protests and conflicts that have peppered the history of free India, but also of the factors and processes that have kept the country together (and kept it democratic), defying numerous prophets of doom who believed that it would break up or come under autocratic rule. This story of modern India is peopled with extraordinary characters: Guha gives fresh insights on the lives and public careers of the long-serving prime ministers, but also writes with feeling and sensitivity about the major provincial leaders and other lesser known (though not necessarily less important) Indians--peasants, tribals, women, workers and musicians.--From publisher description.
651		0	_aIndia _xHistory _y1947- _931620
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0910/2006052180-b.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0910/2006052180-d.html
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