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India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
India’s independence was supposed to be a clean break, a fresh start. Instead, it was more like inheriting a house full of termites, a dozen feuding relatives, and a kitchen that caught fire last night. Ramachandra Guha’s “India After Gandhi” is the story of how the world’s largest democracy stumbled, scrambled, and somehow held itself together in the decades after 1947—warts, chaos, and all.
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