India After Gandhi
Edward Luce, author of "In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India" reviews Ramachandra Guha's "India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy at Financial Times
One of the many strengths of Ramachandra Guha’s India After Gandhi is the wealth and breadth of its sources. In addition to official archives and private collections, the Indian historian Guha draws frequently upon the perceptions of writers and foreign journalists. Some of them might wish he had refrained.
This is too short a review to do justice to what is a sweeping and compendious book by one of India’s foremost writers. Airport browsers might be deterred by its length. But considering the breadth of subject matter and the deft touch of its author, they should linger over this one. It is, after all, a "modern history of one-sixth of humankind".
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