India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

Prologue : unnatural nation -- Pt. I. Picking up the pieces -- 1. Freedom and parricide -- 2. The logic of division -- 3. Apples in the basket -- 4. A valley bloody and beautiful -- 5. Refugees and the republic -- 6. Ideas of India -- Pt. II. Nehru's India -- 7. The biggest gamble in history -- 8. Home and the world -- 9. Redrawing the map -- 10. The conquest of nature -- 11. The law and the prophets -- 12. Securing Kashmir -- 13. Tribal trouble -- Pt. III. Shaking the centre -- 14. The southern challenge -- 15. The experience of defeat -- 16. Peace in our time -- 17. Minding the minorities -- Pt. IV. The rise of populism -- 18. War and succession -- 19. Leftward turns -- 20. The elixir of victory -- 21. The rivals -- 22. Autumn of the matriarch -- 23. Life without the Congress -- 24. Democracy in disarray -- 25. This son also rises -- Pt. V. A history of events -- 26. Rights -- 27. Riots -- 28. Rulers -- 29. Riches -- 30. A people's entertainments -- Epilogue : why India survives.