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Index
Title page
Dedication page
Epigraph page
A Note on Place Names
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Prologue: Unnatural Nation
PART ONE – PICKING UP THE PIECES
1. Freedom and Parricide
2. The Logic of Division
3. Apples in the Basket
4. A Valley Bloody and Beautiful
5. Refugees and the Republic
6. Ideas of India
PART TWO – NEHRU’S INDIA
7. The Biggest Gamble in History
8. Home and the World
9. Redrawing the Map
10. The Conquest of Nature
11. The Law and the Prophets
12. Securing Kashmir
13. Tribal Trouble
PART THREE – SHAKING THE CENTRE
14. The Southern Challenge
15. The Experience of Defeat
16. Peace in Our Time
17. Minding the Minorities
PART FOUR – THE RISE OF POPULISM
18. War and Succession
19. Leftward Turns
20. The Elixir of Victory
21. The Rivals
22. Autumn of the Matriarch
23. Life Without the Congress
24. Democracy in Disarray
25. This Son also Rises
PART FIVE – A HISTORY OF EVENTS
26. Rights and Riots
27. A Multi-polar Polity
28. Rulers and Riches
29. Progress and its Discontents
30. The Rise of the ‘BJP Systems’
Epilogue: A 50–50 Democracy
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
List of Illustrations
Praise for India After Gandhi
About the Author
Also by Ramachandra Guha
Copyright page
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