INDIA AFTER GANDHI: 3RD EDITION (REVISED AND UPDATED)

INDIA AFTER GANDHI: 3RD EDITION (REVISED AND UPDATED) A HISTORY

RAMACHANDRA GUHA

‘Finally, here isa history of democratic India that is every bit as sweeping as the countryitself . . . [A] magisterial work’ Financial Times ‘Guha has given democratic India the rich, well-paced history it deserves’ WashingtonPost ‘An insightful, spirited and elegantly crafted account of India since 1947’ TimesLiterary Supplement ‘A magnificently told history of the world’s largest democracy’ India Today Ramachandra Guha’s India After Gandhi is a magisterial account of thepains, struggles, humiliations and glories of the world’s largest and leastlikely democracy. A riveting chronicle of the often brutal conflicts that haverocked a giant nation, and of the extraordinary individuals and institutionswho held it together, it established itself as a classic when it was firstpublished in 2007. In the years since the publication of the book’s tenth anniversary edition,India has witnessed, among other things, demonetization and a devastatingpandemic; Narendra Modi’s re-election as Prime Minister; more violence againstwomen, Dalits, and religious minorities; a wave of prosperity for some but thepersistence of poverty for others; the abrogation of Kashmir’s autonomousstatus; large-scale citizens’ protests and unprecedented state crackdown ondissent. This third edition, revised and expanded, brings the narrative up tothe present. Published to coincide with the seventy-fifth anniversary of Gandhi’sassassination, this definitive history of modern India is the work of one ofthe world’s finest scholars at the height of his powers.

RAMACHANDRA GUHA

Ramachandra Guha is an author and columnist based in Bangalore. Born in Dehradun in 1958, he studied at St.Stephen’s College, the Delhi School of Economics, and the Indian Institute of Management at Kolkata. Now a full-time writer, he has previously taught at the universities of Yale and Stanford, held the Arné Naess Chair at the University of Oslo, and been the Sundaraja Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Science. In 2011-2 he will occupy the prestigious Phillipe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs at the London School of Economics. Guha’s books include The Unquiet Woods, Savaging the Civilized, A life of the anthropologist-activist Verrier Elwin, A Corner of a Foreign Field (Picador), India after Gandhi (Picador) and Makers of Modern India. He is also the editor of The Picador Book of Cricket.