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Article: India after Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
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India after Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy. Ramachandra Guha. Macmillan. [pounds sterling]25.00. xxvii + 900 pages. ISBN 978-0-230-01654-5. Independent India has been 'a puzzle not just to casual observers or commonsensical journalists...[but] an anomaly for academic political science'. To Mr Guha, India is a country of divisions: caste, language, religion and class and the now fashionable, gender. Post-imperial history is best described as a series of 'conflict maps' which vary across the years according to location and to the nature of the ...
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