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Ramachandra guha indira gandhi biography
India After Gandhi
Non-fictional book by Ramachandra Guha
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy is a non-fiction book by Indian historian Ramachandra Guha.
First published by HarperCollins in August 2007.[1][2]
The book covers the history of the India after it gained independence from the British in 1947.[1] A revised and expanded edition was published in 2017.[3]
Background
In November 1997, Peter Straus, then head of Picador, met Ramachandra Guha and suggested that he write a history of independent India.
Straus had read an article by Guha in the Oxford journal Past and Present. He suggested that since Indian historians typically stopped their narratives with Indian independence in 1947, a scholarly analysis of modern Indian history post-independence would be of interest.
Guha signed a contract in March 1998, with a delivery date for the book specified for March 2002.[4]
In writing the boo