![]() ![]() ![]() Guha's title has the adept subheading of "The History of the World's Largest Democracy," and the book is a stunning work - an instant classic, really. Ramachandra Guha's epic history of modern India, "India After Gandhi," tackles this apparent paradox: India is a seemingly piecemeal country that is unified - somehow - despite tremendous diversity of caste, language, religion and class. "Scotland is more like Spain than Bengal is like the Punjab," the British colonial administrator-turned-academic Sir John Strachey wrote of India in the 1880s. ![]() The History of the World's Largest Democracy By Ramachandra Guha ECCO/ HARPERCOLLINS 893 PAGES $34.95 ![]()
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