This tenth anniversary edition, published to coincide with seventy years of India’s independence, is revised and expanded to bring the narrative up to the present. A revised and expanded edition was published in 2017. The book covers the history of the India after it gained independence from the British in 1947. First published by HarperCollins in August 2007. Massively researched and elegantly written, India After Gandhi is a remarkable account of India’s rebirth, and a work already hailed as a masterpiece of single volume history. India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy is a non-fiction book by Indian historian Ramachandra Guha. But the book also writes with feeling and sensitivity about lesser-known (though not necessarily less important) Indians – peasants, tribals, women, workers and musicians. As Ramachandra Guha points out, India may sometimes be. Guha gives fresh insights into the lives and public careers of those long-serving Prime Ministers, Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. Now, in this remarkable book, we have an epic account of the worlds largest and least likely democracy. Moving between history and biography, the story of modern India is peopled with extraordinary characters.

Ramachandra Guha writes compellingly of the myriad protests and conflicts that have peppered the history of free India. While India is sometimes the most exasperating country in the world, it is also the most interesting. Ramachandra Guhas hugely acclaimed book tells the full story the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the glories of the worlds largest and least. 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. Born 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.

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