- Political History, Histoire, History, Politics and government
Born in privation and civil war, divided by caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country. This remarkable book tells the full story--the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the glories--of the world's largest and least likely democracy.
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Epic, earnest, classical in form and grave.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Ramachandra Guha
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 893
- Publisher
- Gardners Books, Ecco, Macmillan
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780230016545
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