India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest DemocracyAmagisterial 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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... rioting between Hindus and Muslims . The violence had begun on 16 August 1946 , in Calcutta and had spread to the Bengal countryside . From there it moved on to Bihar , then to the United Provinces , and finally to the province of ...
... rioting between Hindus and Muslims . The violence had begun on 16 August 1946 , in Calcutta and had spread to the Bengal countryside . From there it moved on to Bihar , then to the United Provinces , and finally to the province of ...
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... riot in Calcutta in August 1946 , Jinnah and the Mus- lim League hoped to further polarize the two communities , and thus ... riots . In a tour of seven weeks he walked 116 miles , mostly barefoot , addressing almost 100 village meetings ...
... riot in Calcutta in August 1946 , Jinnah and the Mus- lim League hoped to further polarize the two communities , and thus ... riots . In a tour of seven weeks he walked 116 miles , mostly barefoot , addressing almost 100 village meetings ...
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... rioting . As an army memo mournfully observed : " Calcutta was revenged in No- akhali , Noakhali in Bihar , Bihar in ... riots in India between 18 November 1946 and 18 May 1947. Of these , as many as 3,024 had died in the Pun- jab alone ...
... rioting . As an army memo mournfully observed : " Calcutta was revenged in No- akhali , Noakhali in Bihar , Bihar in ... riots in India between 18 November 1946 and 18 May 1947. Of these , as many as 3,024 had died in the Pun- jab alone ...
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... medieval and modern. For the arms used by the rioters “varied from primitive axe, spear, and club to the most modern tommy- gun and light machine- gun.” On 2 September , the Punjab Boundary Force was disbanded 30 PICKING UP THE PIECES.
... medieval and modern. For the arms used by the rioters “varied from primitive axe, spear, and club to the most modern tommy- gun and light machine- gun.” On 2 September , the Punjab Boundary Force was disbanded 30 PICKING UP THE PIECES.
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... riots continued , as did the two - way exodus . West Punjab was being cleansed of Hindus and Sikhs ; East Punjab was being emptied of Muslims . The clinical even - handedness of the violence was described by the Punjab correspondent of ...
... riots continued , as did the two - way exodus . West Punjab was being cleansed of Hindus and Sikhs ; East Punjab was being emptied of Muslims . The clinical even - handedness of the violence was described by the Punjab correspondent of ...
Contents
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Refugees and the Republic | 97 |
Ideas of India | 115 |
Minding the Minorities | 365 |
THE RISE OF POPULISM | 387 |
Leftward Turns | 417 |
The Elixir of Victory | 445 |
The Rivals | 466 |
Autumn of the Matriarch | 491 |
Life Without the Congress | 519 |
Democracy in Disarray | 542 |
NEHRUS INDIA | 135 |
The Biggest Gamble in History | 137 |
Home and the World | 160 |
Redrawing the Map | 189 |
The Conquest of Nature | 209 |
The Law and the Prophets | 233 |
Securing Kashmir | 249 |
Tribal Trouble | 267 |
The Southern Challenge | 287 |
The Experience of Defeat | 306 |
Peace in Our Time | 342 |
This Son Also Rises | 569 |
Rights | 597 |
Riots | 624 |
Rulers | 651 |
Riches | 682 |
A Peoples Entertainments | 709 |
Why India Survives | 733 |
Acknowledgements | 761 |
Index | 859 |
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