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100	1		_aGuha, Ramachandra
245	1		_aIndia after Gandhi : _bthe history of world's largest democracy
260			_aLondon: _bPicador, _c2007.
300			_axviii, 898 pages, [32] pages of plates : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm.
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 book tells the full story, the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the glories, of the world's largest and least likely democracy. The author, a social historian 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: the author gives fresh insights on the lives and public careers of the long-serving prime ministers, but also writes about the major provincial leaders and other lesser known (though not necessarily less important) Indians, peasants, tribals, women, workers and musicians.
651			_aIndia -- _xHistory -- _y1947-
651			_aIndia -- _xPolitics and government -- _y1947-
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