![]() Taking full advantage of the dramatic details of the protests and conflicts that helped shape the nation, politically, socially, and economically, Guha writes of the factors and processes that have kept the country together, and kept it democratic, defying the numerous prophets of doom. ![]() Book Synopsis From one of the subcontinents most important and controversial writers comes this definitive history of post-Partition India, published on the 60th anniversary of Independence Told in lucid and beautiful prose, the story of Indias wild ride toward and since Independence is a riveting one. book tells the full story-the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the glories-of the worlds largest and least likely democracy-From publisher description. About the Book Born in privation and civil war, divided by caste, class, language, and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country. ![]()
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