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India After Gandhi was translated into Hindi as Bharat Gandhi Ke Baad by India Today journalist Sushant Jha New Delhi.

10th anniversary edition (2016/2017) – revised, expanded and updated (first updated edition).

Rights and Riots-A Multi-polar Polity-Rulers and Riches-Progress and its Discontents-The Rise of the BJP Systems 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 The Southern Challenge-The Experience of Defeat-Peace in Our Time-Minding the Minorities

india after gandhi the history of the world

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 Guha re-organized Part Five chronologically (in the earlier edition this section followed a thematic approach), removed a chapter (A People's Entertainments), added two chapters based entirely on new material (Progress and its Discontents & The Rise of the BJP Systems), and rewrote the epilogue (A 50–50 Democracy) for the 10th anniversary edition.įreedom and Parricide-The Logic of Division-Apples in the Basket-A Valley Bloody and Beautiful-Refugees and the Republic-Ideas of India Guha sent across his final draft to Straus in 2006, and the book was published in 2007. The private papers of Indian independence activist and politician C Rajagopalachari and P N Haksar, Indira Gandhi's principal secretary 19, were especially useful to Guha's research. In writing the book, Guha consulted the private papers of several important Indian personalities, as well as newspaper records, housed at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. Guha signed a contract in March 1998, with a delivery date for the book specified for March 2002. He suggested that since Indian historians typically stopped their narratives with Indian independence in 1947, a scholarly analysis of modern Indian history post-independence would be of interest. Straus had read an article by Guha in the Oxford journal Past and Present.

In November 1997, Peter Straus, then head of Picador, met Ramachandra Guha and suggested that he write a history of independent India. 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.

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy is a non-fiction book by Indian historian Ramachandra Guha. 898 pp (First Edition), 919 pp (Revised and Updated Edition)