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020			_a9780062978066 _q(pbk.)
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082			_a954.04 _bGUH\I
100	1		_aGuha, Ramachandra
245	1	0	_aIndia after Gandhi _bthe history of the world's largest democracy _cRamachandra Guha
250			_a10th anniversary edition
250			_aUpdated and expanded
250			_aSecond Ecco paperback edition
300			_axxxiv, 919 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, maps ; _c23 cm
500			_a"Revised and updated"--Cover.
505	0		_aPreface to the second edition -- Prologue: Unnatural nation -- Part 1: 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 -- Part 2: 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 -- Part 3: Shaking the centre. The southern challenge ; The experience of defeat ; Peace in our time ; Minding the minorities -- Part 4: 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 -- Part 5: A history of events. Rights and riots ; A multi-polar polity ; Rulers and riches ; Progress and its discontents ; The rise of the "BJP system" -- Epilogue: A 50-50 democracy.
651		0	_aIndia _xHistory _y1947-
651		7	_aIndia.
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