![]() ![]() There are too many stations in the journey of India to repeat them all. ![]() But the journey is well worth the ride, with rich detail of all the events and personalities in the life of this entrancing nation. The journey of this book is a long one - almost 800 pages, before you can read another 100 pages of notes. This updated and expanded edition, published in 2017, some ten years after the original, is richer for having included the rise to power of current Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But as he notes “that India is still a single nation after sixty testing years of independence, and that it is still largely democratic - these are facts that should compel our deeper attention”.Īnd so, Guha tales us on a journey through India’s history as an independent democracy. Guha writes that “the pages of this book are peppered with forecasts of India’s imminent dissolution, or of its descent into anarchy or authoritarian rules”. “Because they are so many and so various, the people of India are also divided”, according to Guha. India is an “unnatural nation”, according to Guha. ![]()
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