num_pages: 912
description: A magisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi is a breathtaking chronicle of the brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation and the extraordinary factors that have held it together. An intricately researched and elegantly written epic history peopled with larger-than-life characters, it is the work of a major scholar at the peak of his abilities...
language: English
title: India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
titlecomplete: India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
genres: Historical, History, India, Indian Literature, Asia, Politics, Cultural, World History, Unfinished, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 16894
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Mark Lynton History Prize, awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Sahitya Akademi Award
category: English, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Kiriyama Prize
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Cundill History Prize
publisher: Ecco