India After Gandhi History by Ramachandra Guha, First Edition (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. minor shelf wear. book is clean and crisp. excellent binding. fine condition. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Muy bien. Dust Jacket Condition: Muy bien. 1ª Edición. Portada, XXVII hojas+ 900 pp.+ láminas con fotografías. primera edición. Contenido: Unnatural nation. Picking up the pieces. Nehru's India. Shaking the centre. The rise of populism. A history of events: Rights. riots. Rulers. Riches. a people's entertainments. Why India survives. Cuarto menor. Cartoné con sobrecubierta. Muy buen estado.B-04.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book is in Very Good condition. Cover is clean with no marks or stains. Binding is tight, edges are square, corners are sharp. Pages are clean with no writing or underlining. Book appears to be unread. A Great Copy! An Awesome Buy! *SHIPPING IS ADJUSTED FOR THIS TITLE*. None.

Hardcover. Condition: New. First Edition; First Printing. Minute storage shelf wEAR; 6 X 1.97 X 9 inches; 912 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Very Good DJ. First edition. First printing, very good + hardcover shows couple of small wrinkles and tiny closed tear at rear paste down, circular blind stamps at title and half title pages, along with some other very light trace wear, in very good dust jacket (price at flap) that shows closed tear and light wrinkle at top edge of front panel, just a touch of exposure toning along spine and some other very minor shelf wear. 891 pages with a couple of sets of black & white plates. Still a pleasing copy of this ".magisterial account of India's rebirth and the work of a major scholar at the height of his powers".

hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. New York. 2007. August 2007. Ecco Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 9780060198817. 893 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by Dinesh Khanna. Jacket design y Allison Saltzman. keywords: History India. DESCRIPTION - Born against a background of privation and civil war, divided along lines of 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. Ramachandra Guha writes compellingly of the myriad protests and conflicts that have peppered the history of free India. But he writes also of the factors and processes that have kept the country together (and kept it democratic), defying numerous prophets of doom who believed that its poverty and heterogeneity would force India to break up or come under autocratic rule. Once the Western world looked upon India with a mixture of pity and contempt; now it looks upon India with fear and admiration. Moving between history and biography, this story of modern India is peopled with extraordinary characters. Guha gives fresh insights on the lives and public careers of those long-serving prime ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. There are vivid sketches of the major 'provincial' leaders whose province was as large as a European country: the Kashmiri rebel turned ruler Sheikh Abdullah; the Tamil film actor turned politician M. G. Rama-chandran; the Naga secessionist leader Angami Zapu Phizo; the socialist activist Jayaprakash Narayan. But the book also writes with feeling and sensitivity about lesser known (though not necessarily less important) Indians - peasants, tribals, women, workers and musicians. Massively researched and elegantly written, India After Gandhi is at once a magisterial account of India's rebirth and the work of a major scholar at the height of his powers. Ramachandra Guha was born in Dehradun in 1958 and educated in Delhi and Calcutta. He has taught at the universities of Oslo, Stanford and Yale, and at the Indian Institute of Science. He has been a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and also served as the Indo-American Community Chair Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. After a peripatetic academic career, with five jobs in ten years on three continents, Guha settled down to become a full-time writer, based in Bangalore. His books cover a wide range of themes, including a global history of environmentalism, a biography of an anthropologist-activist, a social history of Indian cricket, and a social history of Himalayan peasants. His entire career, he says, seems in retrospect to have been an extended (and painful) preparation for the writing of India After Gandhi. Guha's books and essays have been translated into more than twenty languages. The prizes they have won include the UK Cricket Society's Literary Award and the Leopold-Hidy Prize of the American Society of Environmental History. inventory #641 Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket.