India After Gandhi - A History

<p><b>'Magisterial' - <i>The Financial Times</i></b><br><br><b>An updated edition of Ramachandra Guha's <i>India After Gandhi</i> with new material that explains the major events, policy shifts and controversies of the past decade, placing them in their proper sociological and historical context and setting out the author's justifiable concerns for the decline of democracy in India.</b><br><br>Born against a background of privation and civil war, divided along lines of caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country. Ramachandra Guha&rsquo;s hugely acclaimed book tells the full story &ndash; the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the glories &ndash; of the world&rsquo;s largest and least likely democracy.<br><br>While India is sometimes the most exasperating country in the world, it is also the mos