Описание

Авторство

Рамачадра Гуха

Аннотация

“Book of the Year – The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out and Outlook Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award Ramachandra Guha?s India after Gandhi is a magisterial account of the pains, struggles, humiliations and glories of the world?s largest and least likely democracy. A riveting chronicle of the often brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation, and of the extraordinary individuals and institutions who held it together, it established itself as a classic when it was first published in 2007. In the last decade, India has witnessed, among other things, two general elections; the fall of the Congress and the rise of Narendra Modi; a major anti-corruption movement; more violence against women, Dalits, and religious minorities; a wave of prosperity for some but the persistence of poverty for others; comparative peace in Nagaland but greater discontent in Kashmir than ever before. This tenth anniversary edition, revised and expanded, brings the narrative up to the present. Published to coincide with seventy years of the country?s independence, this definitive history of modern India is the work of one of the world?s finest scholars at the height of his powers.”

Содержание

Prologue: Unnatural Nation
PART ONE – PICKING UP THE PIECES
1. Freedom and Parricide
2. The Logic of Division
3. Apples in the Basket
4. A Valley Bloody and Beautiful
5. Refugees and the Republic
6. Ideas of India
PART TWO – NEHRU’S I NDIA
7. The Biggest Gamble in History
8. Home and the World
9. Redrawing the Map
10. The Conquest of Nature
11. The Law and the Prophets
12. Securing Kashmir
13. Tribal Trouble
PART THREE – SHAKING THE CENTRE
14. The Southern Challenge
15. The Experience of Defeat
16. Peace in Our Time
17. Minding the Minorities
PART FOUR – THE RISE OF POPULISM
18. War and Succession
19. Leftward Turns
20. The Elixir of Victory
21. The Rivals
22. Autumn of the Matriarch
23. Life Without the Congress
24. Democracy in Disarray
25. This Son also Rises
PART FIVE – A HISTORY OF EVENTS
26. Rights
27. Riots
28. Rulers
29. Riches
30. A People’s Entertainments
Epilogue: Why India Survives
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index

Цитирование

Ramachadra Guha. India after Gandhi.The history of the world’s largest democracy. Picador. 2007. Р. 898.