Ebook: India after Gandhi: the history of the world's largest democracy

Unnatural nation -- Freedom and parricide -- The logic of division -- Apples in the basket -- A valley bloody and beautiful -- Refugees and the Republic -- Ideas of India -- The biggest gamble in history -- Home and the world -- Redrawing the map -- The conquest of nature -- The law and the prophets -- Securing Kashmir -- Tribal trouble -- The southern challenge -- The experience of defeat -- Peace in our time -- Minding the minorities -- War and succession -- Leftward turns -- The elixir of victory -- The rivals -- Autumn of the matriarch -- Life without the Congress -- Democracy in disarray -- This son also rises -- Rights and riots -- A multi-polar polity -- Rulers and riches -- Progress and its discontents -- The rise of the "BJP system" -- A 50-50 democracy.;"Born in privation and civil war, divided by caste, class, language, and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country. This ... book tells the full story--the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the glories--of the world's largest and least likely democracy"--From publisher description.