India after Gandhi; The history of the world's largest democracy.(Book review)

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India, complex and inscrutable.

"Why is there an India at all?" That's the most pressing question in India After Gandhi, and the author responds with a comprehensive examination of "the world's largest democracy." From its rocky inception when it became free of British rule in August 1947 to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi just a few months later to the bloodshed and exile that characterized the partitioning of India and Pakistan, the country experienced growing pains that could have destroyed it. Even though it has been an almost inextricable tangle of ...

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