{"product_id":"india-after-gandhi","title":"India After Gandhi","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Magisterial'' - \u003ci\u003eThe Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn updated edition of Ramachandra Guha''s \u003ci\u003eIndia After Gandhi\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn 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’s hugely acclaimed book tells the full story – the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the glories – of the world’s largest and least likely democracy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile India is sometimes the most exasperating country in the world, it is also the most interesting. Ramachandra Guha writes compellingly of the myriad protests and conflicts that have peppered the history of free India. Moving between history and biography, the story of modern India is peopled with extraordinary characters. Guha gives fresh insights into the lives and public careers of those long-serving Prime Ministers, Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. But the book also writes with feeling and sensitivity about lesser-known (though not necessarily less important) Indians – peasants, tribals, women, workers and musicians.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMassively researched and elegantly written,\u003ci\u003e India After Gandhi\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable account of India’s rebirth, and a work already hailed as a masterpiece of single-volume history. This third edition brings the story fully up to date.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57393709547902,"sku":"NW9781035014729","price":21.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781035014729.jpg?v=1778652512","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/india-after-gandhi","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}