India After Gandhi : A History
- Publisher : Pan Macmillan
- Publishing year : January 2023
- Binding : Hardback
- ISBN : 9789395624589
- Imprint : Picador
- Age Group : Adult
- Language : English
‘Finally, here is a history of democratic India that is every bit as sweeping as the country itself . . . [A] magi ...
‘Finally, here is a history of democratic India that is every bit as sweeping as the country itself . . . [A] magisterial work’ Financial Times
‘Guha has given democratic India the rich, well-paced history it deserves’ Washington Post
‘An insightful, spirited and elegantly crafted account of India since 1947’ Times Literary Supplement
‘A magnificently told history of the world’s largest democracy’ India Today
Ramachandra Guha’s India After Gandhi is a magisterial account of the pains, struggles, humiliations and glories of the world’s largest and least likely democracy. A riveting chronicle of the often brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation, and of the extraordinary individuals and institutions who held it together, it established itself as a classic when it was first published in 2007.
Ramachandra Guha has taught at Stanford University, the University of Oslo, the Indian Institute of Science, and the London School of Economics. His books include the award-winning India After Gandhi, and the first volume of this biography, Gandhi Before India, which was a 2014 New York Times Notable Book and a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. He is the recipient of the Fukuoka Prize for contributions to Asian Studies and of an honorary doctorate in the humanities from Yale University. He lives in Bangalore.
