India after Gandhi : (Record no. 1307)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9780330505543
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 954.04
Item number GUH-I
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Guha, Ramachandra
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title India after Gandhi :
Remainder of title the history of the world's largest democracy /
Statement of responsibility, etc Ram Chandra Guha
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher Picador,
Year of publication 2008.
Place of publication London :
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xxvi, 898 p.
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Picking 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 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Abstract, etc Born 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.
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Topical Term GEN
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term India
General subdivision History
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    Non Fiction Library, SPAB Library, SPAB M-1 02/08/2016 001764954.04 GUH-I 00000133 20110922 2051 20100601 WELLWO 00059500 SPAB/LIB/2009-10/B 954.04 GUH-I 001764 Cop. 1 Books
    Non Fiction Library, SPAB Library, SPAB M-1 01/11/2016   954.04 GUH-I 004923 Cop. 2 Books

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