![]() ![]() Guha tends to be much more pro-Nehru than is fashionable these days (since liberalization, many people blame Nehru for keeping India behind I think this is mistaken). The idea is to do a survey of post-independence Indian history with emphasis on the conflicts that have occurred in various states. In each case, I'll try and present some of the main ideas in each chapter in a blog post, so readers can participate in the discussion even if they haven't read that chapter of the book. What I propose is this: we'll look at a chapter or so a week, and go in sequence. Why not read it together? It's not a book club that I'm suggesting, or at least, not exactly - since anyone who proposed an 850 page historical tome as a book club selection would have to be out of his mind. I've had Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi on my shelf for a couple of months, waiting to be seriously cracked. ![]()
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